F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, College Quotes, Men Quotes

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

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I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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I want to do everything in the world with you.

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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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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

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

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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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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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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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