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 FITZGERALDIt 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 FITZGERALDI never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWas it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDToo much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD