F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Fall Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

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The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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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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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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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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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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