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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He felt married to her, that was all.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My hair-- bob it!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a series of successful gestures...
— 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
Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm always afraid of a girl - until I've kissed her. SHE:
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Her voice sounded like money.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It was too early in the morning for family patriotism." -Cecelia Brady — F Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Biography is the falsest of the arts.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In perspective it was tremendous
— F Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
— 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 think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Amory usually liked men individually, yet feared them in crowds unless the crowd was around him.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She laughed with thrilling scorn. Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I married the heroine of my stories.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
For a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You're not in love with me. You never wanted to marry me, did you?' 'It was the twilight,' he said wonderingly.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Hae you got everything you need in the shape of-of tea?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition ... .
— F Scott Fitzgerald
this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
— 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
Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement
— F Scott Fitzgerald
That's going to be your trouble - judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night) — F Scott Fitzgerald
I did not think - I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
So we beat on, boats against the current.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
America is a willingness of the heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What was in the bags?" she asked softly."Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. — F Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren't exactly people ... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon ...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And will I like being called a jazz baby? You will love it. — F Scott Fitzgerald
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It takes two to make an accident.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She would never blame him for being the ineffectual idler so long as he did it sincerely, from the attitude that nothing much was worth doing
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!'.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm paralyzed with happiness
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Life cracked like ice!
— 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
When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
— 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
The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Everything that begins, begins with blood.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
he was safe in here from all the threat of life...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Thirtythe promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F Scott Fitzgerald
Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
