F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Islands Quotes, Light Quotes

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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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

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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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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

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Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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I used to build dreams about you.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

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