F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

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A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of...

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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy.

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