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Time Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

112 Time quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A hurried ship sails past, past behind and future ahead, yet we still rush through the moment. Fitzgerald shows that a sharp mind can hold two opposite ideas at once, and he notes how modern life now changes year by year, ten times faster than before. The urgency of decisions also appears.

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“You can't repeat the past.”

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“She had been kissed once and made love to six times.”

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“Compromising with events time moves along.”

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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“Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.”

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“It's not a bad time, it's not one of the worst times of the day.”

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“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…”

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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

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“The very weather seems to have a quality of the past, faded weather like that of old photographs.”

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You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

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“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the…

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Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again,…

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Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put…

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“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround…

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“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that…

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been…

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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is…

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“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long…

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“I've told you many times that the first thing I decide is the kind of story I want. (...) This is not…

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“Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged…

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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and…

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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,…

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“For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but…

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“She looked up at him as he took a step toward the door; she looked at him without the slightest idea as…

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“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.”…

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“There are times when you almost tell the harmless old lady next door what you really think of her face—that it ought…

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“It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole’s problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of…

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“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same…

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“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once…

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“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not…

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“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of…

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“Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he…

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“This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they…

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to…

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment…

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face…

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men…

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…

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What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -…

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“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven…

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…

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