F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

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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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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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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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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

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Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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