Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. F. Scott Fitzgerald shininggoes-onworld Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her. F. Scott Fitzgerald strongrealheart This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. F. Scott Fitzgerald eyedreamchildren I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you. F. Scott Fitzgerald loving-youmighttwo His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion. F. Scott Fitzgerald partylonelinesssleep God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God! F. Scott Fitzgerald doing-youfoolmay Everything that begins, begins with blood. F. Scott Fitzgerald blood And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone. F. Scott Fitzgerald desiretryingmoving When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself. F. Scott Fitzgerald 21st-birthdaytiredmen Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him. F. Scott Fitzgerald entertainmenthandsart Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery. F. Scott Fitzgerald nervespartymissing You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. F. Scott Fitzgerald eyespringlife Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m. F. Scott Fitzgerald moonmorningthinking The rich are different from us. F. Scott Fitzgerald richmoneydifferent She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game F. Scott Fitzgerald mischiefsatisfactiongames Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. F. Scott Fitzgerald infinite-hopejudgementmatter Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. F. Scott Fitzgerald great-gatsby-importantgreat-gatsby-bookgreat-gatsby-american-dream To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. F. Scott Fitzgerald depressingdangerprofound I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound. F. Scott Fitzgerald eyetakentwo The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. F. Scott Fitzgerald kissinglovenight
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