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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Spring, Eye
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.434, e-artnow

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Death, Letting Go
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Hero, Writing
The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Football, Games

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Love You, Phrases
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

There are no second acts in American lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, American Life
The Last Tycoon "Hollywood, etc." (1941)

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Years, Trying
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, p.45, Lulu.com

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Cities, Yellow
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

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