F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Dream Quotes, Adventure Quotes

Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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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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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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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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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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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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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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