F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Song Quotes, Calling Quotes

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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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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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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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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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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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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