F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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.

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 wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.