F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Country Quotes, Fun Quotes

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

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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of...

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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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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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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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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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

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