F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes — Page 29

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Love

“Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.”

Book Fun Kissing

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Funny

“I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”

Home Fun Party

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Sad

“It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.”

Beautiful Shirts

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Nostalgic

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

World Moving

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Lonely

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”

Dream Girl Taken

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Inspired

“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”

Years Decision Water

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Nostalgic

“Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.”

Kissing Mouths

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Funny

“I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”

Heart Glimpse

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Sad

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.”

War Pride Dirty

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Happy

“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.”

Light Car Ferris Wheels

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Inspired

“This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.”

Men Moving Garden

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Happy

“but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.”

Nerves Vitality Myrtle

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