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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about personality

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

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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 romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald
At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside. F. Scott Fitzgerald
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and..."
To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither. F. Scott Fitzgerald
And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole lot of people,..."
Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole lot of people, trying to be one person. F. Scott Fitzgerald
So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid."
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to..."
interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way."
Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night"
Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night F. Scott Fitzgerald

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