F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes — Page 26

Novelist

Sad

“In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.”

Heart Drunk Things In Life

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Curious

“i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.”

Thinking Mind Starting

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Love

“Her voice is full of money.”

Voice Money

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Grateful

“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”

Country Care

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Nostalgic

“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”

Real Dark Winter

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Love

“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.”

Book Song Voice

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Calm

“It's a mining town in lotus land.”

Land Hollywood

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Wise

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”

Different Rich

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Melancholic

“but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game”

Games Football Forever

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Lonely

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Men Time Loneliness

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Love

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

World Want

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Happy

“Happiness is the relief after extreme tension”

Relief Extremes

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