F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Confused Quotes, Past Quotes

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. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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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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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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