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 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 FITZGERALDSo we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDActually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBefore you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDToo much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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 FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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 FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDDon’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD