Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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 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 FITZGERALDI didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHer philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDShe was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLong ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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 FITZGERALDThings are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe 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