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F. Scott Fitzgerald: top 200 quotes
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Intelligence (n.) is able to be measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
Intelligence (n.) is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Intelligence (n.) is a mere instrument of circumstances.
Narrative (n.) is based on two basic stories, cinderella and jack the giant killer - the charm of women and the courage of men.
The Seashell (n.) is beautiful for it invites regret about what's inside it.
Love (n.) is life's horizon. All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from the phrase 'I love you'.
Love (n.) exists of all sorts in this world but never the same love twice.
Life (n.) is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Life (n.) is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
Life's (n.) conditions are those of defeat. Thus, it finds redemption not in happiness and pleasure but in the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Happiness (n.) is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
Happiness (n.) is not the same thing as satisfaction. Because the conditions of life are those of defeat, the deeper satisfactions of life come not in the form of happiness or pleasure, but rather, they come out of struggle.
Happiness (n.) is the relief after extreme tension.
A Man (n.) is but a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Poetry (n.) is either something that lives like fire inside oneself -like music to the musician or marxism to the communist -or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.