Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I. F. Scott Fitzgerald futility-of-life evil thinking Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid. F. Scott Fitzgerald bounds persons imagination why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you F. Scott Fitzgerald phrases love-you life I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen. F. Scott Fitzgerald writing night book The transition from libertine to prig was so complete. F. Scott Fitzgerald libertine transition His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. F. Scott Fitzgerald green-lights docks dream "Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too." F. Scott Fitzgerald eye love lying There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. F. Scott Fitzgerald loneliness expression self The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes. F. Scott Fitzgerald mistake believe father i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think. F. Scott Fitzgerald starting mind thinking That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works. F. Scott Fitzgerald men boys school Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life. F. Scott Fitzgerald college education men How different it all was from what you'd planned. F. Scott Fitzgerald different In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald drunk things-in-life heart Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. F. Scott Fitzgerald ought writing book I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald knowing-nothing tired knowing Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. F. Scott Fitzgerald lakes forests world The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life. F. Scott Fitzgerald horse taken men So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald standing-there moonlight standing Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! F. Scott Fitzgerald stars land home
