F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 2

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? View quote
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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness. View quote
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. View quote
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. View quote
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. View quote
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. View quote
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. View quote
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. View quote
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. View quote
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It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It takes a genius to whine appealingly. View quote
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. View quote
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. View quote
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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. View quote
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. View quote
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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. View quote
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Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can! View quote
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So we beat on, boats agains the current. Borne back ceaselessly into the past. View quote
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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. View quote
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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher - a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. View quote
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why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you. View quote
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Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go. View quote
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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep. View quote
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