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More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.