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Down Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces…
- She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle…
- There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of…
- It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries...…
- Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced…
- Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides…
- I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
- The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered…
- But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope…
- The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her…
- Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of…
- The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was…
- 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 had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at…
- The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into…
- 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,…
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