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It's Never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick). — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble — F Scott Fitzgerald

One thin's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
In the meantime,
In between time ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's a bad town unless you're on top of it — F Scott Fitzgerald

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

That's a great expression of yours, isn't it?" said Tom sharply. "What is?" "All this 'old sport' business. Where'd you pick that up? — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You are mysterious, I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He's just a man names Gatsby. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hope she'll be a fool
that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I love her and that's the beginning of everything ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. "There's nothing to tell." But — 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

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F Scott Fitzgerald

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan

WELL, YOU NEVER KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH SPACE YOU OCCUPIED IN PEOPLE'S LIVES. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable ... . — F Scott Fitzgerald

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'll tell you God's truth. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. — F Scott Fitzgerald

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

She is the most charming person in the world. That's all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting- she's perfect. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There's no 'Safety First' in Art. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Let's build a town where — F Scott Fitzgerald

If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible. — John Dos Passos

I can never judge a man while he's talking — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There's a difference somewhere. Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently — F Scott Fitzgerald

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you
it's a wall that an active you runs up against. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude
it's a slam at the people they've met before. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."
I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires
all for eighty dollars a month. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's not a bad time, it's not one of the worst times of the day. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. — 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

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. — F Scott Fitzgerald

She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dick's sun. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In case there's a fire or a flood, or any act of God. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon
down here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go — F Scott Fitzgerald

She's said to be very beautiful by people who ought to know. — 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

Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes — F Scott Fitzgerald

So I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires — F Scott Fitzgerald

The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years of Ohio love behind me and I'm going to bomb out this trench. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart. — F Scott Fitzgerald

That's going to be your trouble - judgment about yourself.
(Tender is the Night) — F Scott Fitzgerald

Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic tastes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Strange children should smile at each other and say, Let's play. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind — F Scott Fitzgerald

Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all
and yet there's something in that voice of hers ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made. — Rosamund Pike

Actually that's my secret - I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known. — Bob Dylan

So, for the shoddiness of needs, are shoes made out of last year's hide. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence. — F Scott Fitzgerald