F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

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Englishmen must have an island.

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that voice was a deathless song.

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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

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