F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

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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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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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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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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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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 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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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