F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Children Quotes, Echoes Quotes

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

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

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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