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Afternoon Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
- There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the…
- When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes…
- And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began…
- Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link…
- Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;…
- I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits…
- Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
- But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as…
- He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon…
- What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life…
- The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
More Afternoon Quotes
- We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks
- I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess
- I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with… — David Byrne
- We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. — Jimmy Carter
- France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. — Barbara Cartland
- On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play… — Maya Angelou
- It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. — Hank Aaron
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton