F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stars Quotes, Distance Quotes

"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

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These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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Kiss me now, love me now.

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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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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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

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The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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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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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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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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