F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Confused Quotes, Past Quotes

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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

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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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

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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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