F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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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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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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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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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--
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You can stroke people with words.
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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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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.