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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes

American Author, Writer September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had..."
A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave. F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Junior writers $300; Minor poet?$500 a week; Broken..."
Junior writers $300; Minor poet?$500 a week; Broken novelist?$850-1000; One play dramatist?$1500; Suck?$2000. Wit?$2500. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself."
Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not..."
Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not so cowardly F. Scott Fitzgerald
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything..."
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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