F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 13

I'm not much like myself any more. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. View quote
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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. View quote
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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams. View quote
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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure. View quote
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I'm thirty,” I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor. View quote
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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me. View quote
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Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. View quote
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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy. View quote
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She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken. View quote
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A writer wastes nothing. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live. View quote
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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. View quote
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It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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She knew few words and believed in none. View quote
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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it. View quote
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I want leisure to read-an immense amount. View quote
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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third. View quote
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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. View quote
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People living alone get used to loneliness. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. View quote
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She was incurably dishonest. View quote
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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation. View quote
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I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. View quote
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