F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Men Quotes, Air Quotes

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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that voice was a deathless song.

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Her voice is full of money.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

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Action is character.

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