F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Boys Quotes, Self Quotes

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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