Time Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

112 Time quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald captures the glitter and the ache of moments slipping away. In these 112 lines you’ll sense the same restless yearning that powered his novels, now focused on how quickly the bright lights dim and the past reshapes itself.

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“You can't repeat the past.”

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“Compromising with events time moves along.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault but…

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“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for…

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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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I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much…

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“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we…

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He's a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to…

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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment…

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“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved…

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“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost…

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision…

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“You and I have been happy; we haven't been happy just once, we've been happy a thousand times. . . Forget the…

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations…

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“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you…

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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I…

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“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big…

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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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“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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“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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“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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“He shut the door and coming back into the room stood for a moment lost in thought with the tennis ball still…

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

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

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”

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“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities…

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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…

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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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“Life is a series of successful gestures...”

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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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