F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

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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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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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

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