F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Spring Quotes

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

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Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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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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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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