F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, New York Quotes, Moving Quotes

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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

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You can stroke people with words.

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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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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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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

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