F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Night Quotes, Wonderful Quotes

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.

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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

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The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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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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The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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All I think of ever is that I love you.

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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

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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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