Top & Most Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
"Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face."
"You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves."
"No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings."
"We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom."
"November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape."
"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor."
"Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize."
"I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!"
"I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself."
"The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity."
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
"I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them."
"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."
"So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence."
"We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it."
"Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity."
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
"The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta."
"She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible."
"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
"He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it."
"Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me."
"Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre."
"She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there."
"Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child."
"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."
"It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world."
"Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion."
"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."
"They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered."
"Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea."
"As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air."
"She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him."
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
"The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead."
"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual."
"I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish."
"He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in."
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