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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I found something! Courage
just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I thought you weren't afraid." "I never am
but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Art isn't meaningless ... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is a series of successful gestures... — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you're proud of. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In his moments of insecurity he was haunted by the suggestion that life might be, after all, significant. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I had done everything on earth with you — F Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You will admit that if it was not life it was magnificent. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it
three minutes; to collect the data in it
all my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had — F Scott Fitzgerald

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned") — F Scott Fitzgerald

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others
young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water. — F Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Human sympathy has its limits. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life cracked like ice! — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people. — F Scott Fitzgerald

he was safe in here from all the threat of life... — F Scott Fitzgerald

always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The — Blake Crouch

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase
'I love you — F Scott Fitzgerald

Now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I want excitement; and I don't care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat. — F Scott Fitzgerald

don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde — F Scott Fitzgerald

If truth is the end of life happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It — F Scott Fitzgerald

Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely A man can be twice young In the life of his sons only. — F Scott Fitzgerald

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

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. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life begins again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We'll all be failures?"
"Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you? — F Scott Fitzgerald

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F Scott Fitzgerald