More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
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.
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.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
