More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
