F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Clever Quotes, Garden Quotes

The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

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There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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