F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Trying
  • Water
  • Daily

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Good
  • Believe
  • House

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Educated

• I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Think
  • Better
  • Wine

• Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Stop

• Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

  

  Daniel Pennac
  • Country
  • School
  • Society

• I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

  

  China Chow
  • Art

• I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

  

  Eric Walters
  • Up

• The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind