F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Night Quotes, Justice Quotes

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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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.

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

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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

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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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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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