F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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F Scott Fitzgerald Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from
Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key
Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.
That's a great expression of yours, isn't it?" said Tom sharply. "What is?" "All this 'old sport' business. Where'd you pick that up?
The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-
After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.
Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you
it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
You once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm
How do you do, Captain, she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled.
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.
social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having
The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.
He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.
Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely A man can be twice young In the life of his sons only.