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Firsts Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out…
- Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.
- A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.
- Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
- When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.…
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
- First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
- His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
- The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery…
- I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way…
- I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first…
- The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the…
- First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the…
- The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a…
- Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in…
- There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
- 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…
- Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the…
- Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
- There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,…
- There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared…
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