F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Love

“His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.”

Thinking Hands Song

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Funny

“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.”

Men Differences Race

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Angry

“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”

Men Bread Sandwiches

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Creative

“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.”

Writing Keys

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Hopeful

“All things come to him who mates.”

Waiting Patience

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Sad

“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”

Faces Relief Maps

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Lonely

“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”

Done Grief Loneliness

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Love

“he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”

Thinking Wise Brave

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Melancholic

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Men Taken Horse

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Love

“Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.”

Voice Air Rose

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Melancholic

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”

World Long Dream

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Spiritual

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

Thinking Forever Great Gatsby Love

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