F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 15

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth... (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. View quote
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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss. View quote
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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. View quote
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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. View quote
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. View quote
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. View quote
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I've got an adjective that just fits you. View quote
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then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. View quote
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You've got an awfully kissable mouth. View quote
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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses. View quote
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Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. View quote
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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh. View quote
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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone. View quote
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Never miss a party... good for the nerves--like celery. View quote
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. View quote
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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains... View quote
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and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it. View quote
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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right. View quote
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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately - and the decision must be made by some force - of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality - that was close at hand. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected. View quote
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to "succeed" - and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. View quote
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This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general hysteria of that spring which inaugurated the Age of Jazz, but in my story I have tried, unsuccessfully I fear, to weave them into a pattern - a pattern which would give the effect of those months in New York as they appeared to at least one member of what was then the younger generation. View quote
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on. View quote
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