F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”
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“His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.”
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“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”
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“And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
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“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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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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“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
-- F. Scott FitzgeraldSource : F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing
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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”
-- F. Scott FitzgeraldSource : F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3094, e-artnow
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“We all have souls of different ages”
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“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
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“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”
-- F. Scott FitzgeraldSource : F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1469, e-artnow
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“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
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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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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
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“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
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“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
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“i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”
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“I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.”
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“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
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“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing”
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“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
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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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“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”
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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
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“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
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“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”
-- F. Scott FitzgeraldSource : F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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