F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both
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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
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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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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
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Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension
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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.
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Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
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People living alone get used to loneliness.
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.
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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
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The rich are different from us.
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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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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.
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