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Once Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
- Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
- Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.
- Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of…
- She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
- Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
- Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot,…
- It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many…
- but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
- He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into…
- He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from…
- 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…
- Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.
- She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
- you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins