F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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You once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest...

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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down…. There was kindliness about intoxication – there was the indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

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But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

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Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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You don't know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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I'm thirty, I said. I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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

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Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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The cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed—the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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