F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

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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 just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

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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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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

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Mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and—and in love before they're born.

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He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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All the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

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And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

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The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

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He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

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His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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