79 result(s) for F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes.
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."
"You don't understand someone until you understand their pain."
"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning—"
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"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
"There are all kinds of beauty in the world, but never two beauties alike."
"When people are taken out of their depth they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material."
"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther."
"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
"Begin with an individual and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type and you find that you have created - nothing."
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
"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."
"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind..."
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"Riches have never fascinated me unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck."
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."
"I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
"Action is character."
"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it."
"For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules."
"You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement."
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"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind."
"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created nothing."
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice."
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
"It's a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what has changed is you."
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."
"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
"Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!"
"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement."
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
"I love her, and that's the beginning and the end of everything."
"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."
"His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."
"Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can!"
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
"Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
"There are dark hidden chambers in every human heart."
"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they do is stare blankly."
"I don't want to live—I want to love first, and live incidentally."
"Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."
"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."
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
"The rich are different from you and me."
"It's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life that you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
"I had been drunk just once twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it."
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
"I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything."
"Mostly, an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with a lot of details missing."
"Vitality shows in not only the will to live but the will to live well."
"All life is just a progression toward, first toward individuality, second toward individuality’s recognition of itself and its needs."
"Advertising is a racket."
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