More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
Suddenly 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.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
