More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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.
