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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about time

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

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten... F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for..."
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually..."
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. F. Scott Fitzgerald
she walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with... F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Compromising with events time moves along."
Compromising with events time moves along. F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "One thin's sure and nothing's surer. The rich get richer and..."
One thin's sure and nothing's surer. The rich get richer and the poor get? children. In the meantime, In between time... F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the..."
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "What was the use of doing great things if I could have a..."
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and..."
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every..."
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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