Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their...

It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their...

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little...

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

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

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

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

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

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

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory...