F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, World Quotes

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

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When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

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You can stroke people with words.

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

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His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.

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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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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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that voice was a deathless song.

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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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