F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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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.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
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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.