F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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

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

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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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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon—down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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It's not a slam at you when people are rude—it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding— it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. —The Sensible Thing

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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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

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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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