F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Bottles Quotes, Demand Quotes

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

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

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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

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I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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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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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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Englishmen must have an island.

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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