F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Morning Quotes, Sorry Quotes

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sorry Quotes

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Heart Quotes

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Looks Quotes , Littles Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , People Quotes , Mind Quotes

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dream Quotes , Light Quotes

He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eye Quotes , Air Quotes

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Care Quotes , Drink Quotes

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Height Quotes

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Men Quotes , Brain Quotes

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , My Birthday Quotes , Answers Quotes

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Intellectual Quotes , Intelligence Quotes

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , People Quotes , Rude Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Regret Quotes , Past Quotes

Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Where You Come Quotes , Forget Quotes

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Looks Quotes

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Style Quotes , Excellence Quotes

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stars Quotes , Party Quotes

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Bottles Quotes , Demand Quotes

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Swimming Quotes

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Strong Quotes , Personality Quotes