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“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Source: The Great Gatsby

“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 when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby