F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Heart Quotes

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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All I think of ever is that I love you.

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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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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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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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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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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