F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Calm

“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”

Want Wish Relax

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Hopeful

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

Moving New York Bridges

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Melancholic

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

Mean Rose

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Funny

“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”

Play Lovely

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Angry

“The rich get richer and the poor get - children.”

Children Rich Great Gatsby Book

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Spiritual

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”

Pain Choices

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Creative

“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

Speech Notes

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Wise

“Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.”

Looks Littles West

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Philosophical

“Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.”

Dream Voice Fate

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Lonely

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

Dream Wanted

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Creative

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you”

Fire Poetry

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Wise

“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”

Feet Apology Later In Life

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