An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsbys house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams 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 capacity for wonder.F. Scott Fitzgerald
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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