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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes part 2

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth doesn’t mean age, youth doesn’t mean age. Youth is a quality. If you’ve ever known a real youth, you’d know that it has nothing to do with time. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world only exists in your eyes – your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what’s changed is you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here’s to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world only exists because we see it and understand it; and if you were to disappear, it might exist still, but there it would be completely different. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude—it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don’t understand, I love you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Haven’t you heard? I’m the crazy one. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes two to make an accident. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches, so these have a kind of reality by which their sudden irruption into the Kingdom of Boredom gives them an aura of authenticity. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

How can you tell if you’re going to do something that prevents you? You can’t. You just can’t think about it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

People from very different backgrounds can work together if they want to see it happen. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some people, says Littimer, are of a particularly immoral breed. They like instability; the car crashes, he says, ‘the mind-stopping error that allows you to go back only to the fifties and spend the whole night drilling pegs into toys.’ I was completely exhausted – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you’re in no hurry today, Daisy, ‘ I said over the phone. ‘Indeed, I’m not. This is the day, you know, that I make my seven heart-to-hearts in a row. I sit around in the President’s suite with my doctor and my six trained nurses and…It’s so cruel, Daisy, to have been practically sure you won’t die!You can count my offer, but no bets!Rather predictable, isn’t she? – F. Scott Fitzgerald