63 ordspråk av F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
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If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name.
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In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties, we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
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It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
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Nick, on the Buchanans: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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