F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Air Quotes, Unhappy Quotes

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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

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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. 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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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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