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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

Thirty
the 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

My yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the revenue — F Scott Fitzgerald

There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of he young breath-giving air. — F Scott Fitzgerald