F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
133 Quotes
"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
"Human sympathy has its limits."
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Breathing dreams like air"
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
"Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?"
F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
"“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”"
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The victor belongs to the spoils."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Forgotten is forgiven."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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