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F. Scott Fitzgerald — Portrait after a picture by Nickolas Muray (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

American writer

1896–1940

32 quotes, most often on Money, Time and Experience.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Closing linesIn context
- Time
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Hope
- Time
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter⁠—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Hope
- Time

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