F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 10

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish. View quote
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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories. View quote
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that voice was a deathless song. View quote
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Character is plot, plot is character. View quote
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Kiss me now, love me now. View quote
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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. View quote
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We all must try to be good. View quote
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The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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. View quote
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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. View quote
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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us. View quote
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There is a moment-Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word-something that makes it worth while. View quote
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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses. View quote
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. View quote
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I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth. View quote
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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. View quote
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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years. View quote
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. View quote
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All I think of ever is that I love you. View quote
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