F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Girl Quotes, Dream Quotes

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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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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Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

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

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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Englishmen must have an island.

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