Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’ — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did.""She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I beli — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages — F. Scott Fitzgerald
After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a n — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a fathe — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wish I had done everything on earth with you — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he suc — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Character is plot, plot is character. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was late morning when he woke and found the telephone beside his bed in the hotel tolling frantically, and remembered — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided mysel — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our de — F. Scott Fitzgerald