F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Wine Quotes

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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There are no second acts in American lives.

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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of...

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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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