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3610 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.', 'I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.', and 'The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can ...
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Views, People, Buttons.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. Get all the details, meaning, context, and even a pretentious factor for good measure.
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A letter to his daughter, November 18, 1938 "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald" "Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public." "Tender Is the Night" "It took him a moment to respond to the unguarded sweetness of her smile, her body calc...
"The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald" "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known." "The Great Gatsby" "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." "This Side of Paradise" "The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth,...
"The Offshore Pirate," "Flappers and Philosophers" "All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase — 'I love you.'" "Tender is the Night" "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." "The Great Gatsby" "Every ...
A letter to his daughter "All good writingis swimming under water and holding your breath." "The Crack-Up" "Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges." A letter to his daughter, April 27, 1940 "Often I t...
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Tales of the Jazz Age" "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." "The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald" "Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores...
"The Swimmers" "France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter — it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the ...
"The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald" "No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there." "Optimism is the content of small men in high places." "An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man knocking over the solid furniture." "Forgotten is forgiven." "You can stroke people with words." A letter ...
A letter to his daughter, August 24, 1940 "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero." "This Side of Paradise" "People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer o...
"Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number —" "It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory." "The Great Gatsby" "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Sources: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Selected Letters by ...
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May 7, 2013 · “There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
Sep 24, 2017 · Yes, life does feel like it starts over again when in the Fall, Fitzy. But did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was also born in the fall? Today’s his 121st birthday, so to celebrate, let’s look at ten of the best F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes.
