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“A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.” (The Short Stories Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“I don’t think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter–as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“In the morning you were never violently sorry- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“Real help comes from a stronger person whom you respect. And their sympathy is all the bigger because it’s impersonal.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories
