F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Moving Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

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

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

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I want to be a society vampire, you see.

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I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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