So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
from the book "" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Quotes by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature, even criminals do not fail that way, they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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It was no affair for the watch: Satan was at large tonight and Satan seemed to be he who appeared dimly in front, heel over gate, knee over fence. Moreover, the adversary was obviously travelling near home or at least in that section of London consecrated to his coarser whims, for the street narrowed like a road in a picture and the houses bent over further and further, cooping in natural ambushes suitable for murder and its histrionic sister, sudden death.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad.
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth, yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams.
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Look at you; you're on The New Democracy, considered the most brilliant weekly in the country, read by the men who do things and all that. What's your business? Why, to be as clever, as interesting, and as brilliantly cynical as possible about every man, doctrine, book, or policy that is assigned you to deal with. The more strong lights, the more spiritual scandal you can throw on the matter, the more money they pay you, the more the people buy the issue.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
a big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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