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F Scott Fitzgerald Inspirational Quotes (414)

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
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Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
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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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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise thirty is apt to be pale from overwork forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
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I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.
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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
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I was too absorbed to be responsive
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.
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