F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Morning Quotes, New York Quotes

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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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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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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You can stroke people with words.

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

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The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

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