F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes Pt. 2

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"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - Tales of the Jazz Age

"We'll survive, you and I." - More Than Just a House

"But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."

"Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know because I once wanted something and I got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly... And when I got it, it turned to dust in my hands." - The Beautiful and the Damned

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."

"I've formed the habit of liking you." - Head and Shoulders

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." - The Great Gatsby

"He knew he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."

"I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do." - More than Just a House

"Some people enter your life in a whirlwind and no matter how hard you try you can't stop thinking about them, even after they leave...especially after they leave."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible rarity of life."

"There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"We all have souls of different ages."

"Her one hundred and five pounds reached the pier and it seemed to sway and bend from the shock of her beauty. A large sentimental shark which had followed the step across made one last despairing leap to see her once more, and then dove, brokenhearted, back into the deep sea. Rags Martin-Jones had come home." - Rags Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales

"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be his wife or mistress." - The Beautiful and the Damned

"In any case, you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat." - Tender is the Night

"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capcity for wonder." - The Great Gatsby

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet new people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you have the courage to start again." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known--and even that is an understatement."

"Excuse me again. I'm not like myself anymore." - Tender is the Night

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