F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Islands Quotes, Light Quotes

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

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Murder your darlings.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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