F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 5

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. View quote
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend. View quote
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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. View quote
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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. View quote
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Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness? View quote
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. View quote
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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. View quote
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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. View quote
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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. View quote
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But you can love more than just one person, can't you? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. View quote
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate. View quote
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Actually that's my secret - I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are. View quote
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I am one of the few honest people I have ever known. View quote
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Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. View quote
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want. View quote
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. View quote
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. View quote
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Theyre a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together.' View quote
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I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him. View quote
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. View quote
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. View quote
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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. View quote
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