F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Father Quotes, Missing Quotes

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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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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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

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The rich are different from us.

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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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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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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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