F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Life Quotes, Years Quotes

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.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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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.

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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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