F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stars Quotes, Moon Quotes

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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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

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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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.

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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

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All things come to him who mates.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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