More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
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 was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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.
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.
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.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
