he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never… — 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
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read"… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior… — 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
