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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drinking, Wine, Scotch
"Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Space, People, Tender Is The Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hero, Writing, Thinking

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Discipline, Taste
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Matter, Lows, Basements

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Pain, Profound

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cheating, Struggle, Satisfaction
Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Romantic, Heart
F. Scott Fitzgerald's letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forever, Pockets, Safe
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Inspirational, Life

Never confuse activity with action.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Action, Activity

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sleep, Trying, Bed
The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sorry, Courses
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1718, e-artnow

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Looks, Caves
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.108, Penguin

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lonely, Book, Reading

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Breathe
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.883, e-artnow

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Want, Buttons, Too Late

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Want, Ifs
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Green Lights, Arms
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Believe, Quality, World
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA

We all have souls of different ages

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Soul, Age, Different
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.232, e-artnow

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ability

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Life, Believe
Letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy, Carpe Diem, Laissez Faire Capitalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.226, e-artnow

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Men, Wife
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.56, Pelekanos Books

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