F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 14

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. View quote
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Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. View quote
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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. View quote
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. View quote
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. View quote
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. View quote
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. View quote
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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. View quote
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You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. View quote
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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I love her and that's the beginning of everything... View quote
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We haven't met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute. View quote
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him. View quote
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I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. View quote
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Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play. View quote
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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing. View quote
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Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. View quote
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It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life. View quote
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In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat. View quote
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Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. View quote
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation. View quote
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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. View quote
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot. View quote
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