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Away Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
- taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
- I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk…
- Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
- The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
- He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early…
- As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with…
- the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and…
- 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…
- His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four…
- You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it…
- 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…
- So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.
- If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as…
- He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed,…
- Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
- People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
- It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius