F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Garden Quotes

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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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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All things come to him who mates.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

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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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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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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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