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Book Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
- Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
- Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
- I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
- Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
- There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
- That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.…
- A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style…
- Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly…
- He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable…
- I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
- 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…
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