F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 12

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves. View quote
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It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future. View quote
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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon. View quote
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She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated! View quote
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. View quote
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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. View quote
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Human sympathy has its limits. View quote
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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. View quote
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. View quote
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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. View quote
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No decent career was ever founded on a public. View quote
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What do you think of that? It's stopped raining." I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. View quote
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. View quote
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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. View quote
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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see. View quote
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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning. View quote
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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart. View quote
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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. View quote
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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. View quote
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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. View quote
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You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. View quote
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If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. View quote
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