F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Coats Quotes, Months Quotes

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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Her voice is full of money.

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

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The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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