F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Eye Quotes, Destiny Quotes

When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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

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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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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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