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Wanted Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do…
- He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come…
- 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,…
- And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began…
- She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
- Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;…
- 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…
- I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions…
- he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
- he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was…
- It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.
- She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that…
- 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…
- I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
- How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I…
- all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made…
- All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than…
- 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,…
- She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
- 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…
- 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…
- He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except…
- It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured…
- we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made…
- 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.
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