F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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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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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--
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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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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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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
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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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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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You can stroke people with words.
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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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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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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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'Look here, old sport, ... what's your opinion of me, anyhow?' A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.
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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.