F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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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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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

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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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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

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Action is character.

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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

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The rich are different from us.

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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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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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