F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Life Quotes

There are no second acts in American lives.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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

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The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

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Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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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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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

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