F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stars Quotes, Children Quotes

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

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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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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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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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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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