Failing Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s elegant prose turns the ache of failing into something almost beautiful. Across nine succinct lines, his reflections carry the melancholy and hope that define his storytelling.

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Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was…

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How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to…

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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come…

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These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make…

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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng…

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just…

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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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