The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLike so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThey talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldunloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldUnder the stars,' she repeated. 'I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to someone. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.'
It was a dream,' said John quietly. 'Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
How pleasant then to be insane!'
So I'm told,' said John gloomily. 'I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. Well, I have that last and I will make the usual nothing of it.
It takes two to make an accident.
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that voice was a deathless song.
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was ....
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