F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Eye Quotes

Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

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Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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

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