F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 9

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. View quote
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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. View quote
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. View quote
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. View quote
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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. View quote
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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. View quote
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. View quote
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. View quote
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. View quote
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. (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. View quote
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound. View quote
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I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. View quote
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. View quote
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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby. View quote
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I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. View quote
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. View quote
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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself. View quote
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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate. View quote
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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval. View quote
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. View quote
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the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. View quote
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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. View quote
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