F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of...

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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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

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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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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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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

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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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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

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A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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