Quotes by
Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
1896-1940 , American writer
American novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby ( (1925). His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as famous as his books.
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Quotations
| • | Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. 3 |
| • | Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. 3 |
| • | So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. 2 |
| • | First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. 2 |
| • | The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want. 2 |
| • | Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. 2 |
| • | I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits. 2 |
| • | That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. 1 |
| • | Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. 1 |
| • | Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. 1 |
| • | I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. 1 |
| • | I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. 1 |
| • | There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. 1 |
| • | You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. 1 |
| • | Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. 1 |
| • | Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. 1 |
| • | Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. 1 |
| • | In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. 1 |
| • | What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? 1 |
| • | Forgotten is forgiven. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. |
| • | I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. |
| • | And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. |
| • | Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. |
| • | Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. |
| • | They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. |
| • | Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. |
| • | Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. |
| • | There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. |
| • | I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. |
| • | Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. |
| • | It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. |
| • | A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress. |
| • | At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. |
| • | When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right. |
| • | I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. |
| • | Happiness is the relief after extreme tension. |
| • | We all have souls of different ages. |
| • | What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. |
| • | Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. |
| • | The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners. |
| • | Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. |
| • | It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. |
| • | Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. |
| • | Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. |
