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Day Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.
- I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter…
- Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
- It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.…
- In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
- Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom…
- Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year…
- It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day…
- It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day…
- Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
- The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
- We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring,…
- It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day…
- She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted…
- 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…
- smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
- 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.
- Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and…
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong