I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDCelibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHer philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSuddenly 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThey slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBefore you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’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 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 FITZGERALDIt’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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 FITZGERALDThere are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD