F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Writing Quotes

A writer wastes nothing.

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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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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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Character is plot, plot is character.

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

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