F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Morning Quotes, New York Quotes

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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Action is character.

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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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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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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