“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into the picture. I don't mind… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
