Morning Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

16 Morning quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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When the day first stirs, Fitzgerald’s voice slips in, balancing optimism with a hint of wistfulness. These sixteen snippets give a taste of his lyrical take on sunrise moments, perfect for anyone craving a literary nudge as the world awakens.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and…

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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I…

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early…

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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical…

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“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream…

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy…

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's…

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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was…

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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if…

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“But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure…

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather…

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had…

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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of…

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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had…

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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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