Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image ““It was themselves he gave back to them, blurred by the compromises of how many years.”” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“men of shifting compromise, men who stood for nothing, who were so lost in lies that they did not even understand themselves.” — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
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“To their own demise, most attended the party and still remain. Time wasters and space takers.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
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“They concentrated their efforts to persuade the group of Persuadables. They invested heavily in this strategy; apparently it paid off.” — Anasse Bari Copy Share Image
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“He gave them everything they wanted because after all, he was nothing more than the illusion they wanted him to be.” — Lynda Aicher Copy Share Image
“...They went from regarding these compromises as regrettable to considering them necessary, then normal, then even desirable.” — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image