It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know… — 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
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or… — 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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo… — 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
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
“Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't… — 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
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