F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Writing Quotes, Heart Quotes

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Human sympathy has its limits.

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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 guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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

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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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