F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Dream Quotes, Passion Quotes

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

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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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Forgotten is forgiven.

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One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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Human sympathy has its limits.

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

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You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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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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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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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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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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