F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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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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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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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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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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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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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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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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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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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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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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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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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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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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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.
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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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You can stroke people with words.
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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.