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Back Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a…
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless…
- We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set…
- So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided…
- I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going…
- They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.
- For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
- What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
- Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart…
- I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
- Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I…
- Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick…
- 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,…
- And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard…
- It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I…
- Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry.…
- They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or…
- Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money…
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