I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
– F Scott Fitzgerald
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- …he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t change the past.”Can’t change the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can! – F Scott Fitzgerald
- He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it’s clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Experience is not worth the getting. It’s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you–it’s a wall that an active you runs up against. – F Scott Fitzgerald
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- This is all. It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn’t do – and wouldn’t last. – F Scott Fitzgerald
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- I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. – F Scott Fitzgerald
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- but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. – F Scott Fitzgerald
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- All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. – F Scott Fitzgerald