Top 14 Stahr Quotes

#1. And I should have said something. Of course, I should have said thing after thing after thing after thing.

John Green

#2. Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. Wylie: "If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"

Stahr: "That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

Katie Nolan

#7. Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. the luxuries and redundancy of speech" - indulgences appealing to
the passions rather than to reason - that he believed "eloquence ought
to be banished out of all civil societies as a thing fatal to peace and good
manners.

Nora Bacon

#10. There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise

Donald Trump

#11. [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

Eleanor Antin

#12. True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Robert Mugabe

#13. No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

Chad Hurley

#14. New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based

Shane Snow

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