F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 5

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

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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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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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But you can love more than just one person, can't you? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

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Actually that's my secret - I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.

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Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

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

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

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Theyre a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together.'

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I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Occupation: American Author
Born: September 24, 1896
Died: December 21, 1940
Quotes count: 480
Wikipedia: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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