F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Grief Quotes, Steps Quotes

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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

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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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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

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Action is character.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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