he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses F. Scott Fitzgerald scent rose mean How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his. F. Scott Fitzgerald wine eye would-be I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. F. Scott Fitzgerald confused confusion people 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 rich time children It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. F. Scott Fitzgerald rude literature people His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete. F. Scott Fitzgerald girl stars flower We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine. F. Scott Fitzgerald morrow sunshine I don't care about truth. I want some happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald i-dont-care care want Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. F. Scott Fitzgerald cute friendship men Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. F. Scott Fitzgerald In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. F. Scott Fitzgerald advice father years The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. F. Scott Fitzgerald insomnia sleep trying I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know. F. Scott Fitzgerald neglect want heart The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility F. Scott Fitzgerald curious people world Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants. F. Scott Fitzgerald heart beautiful memories There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald american-life life I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. F. Scott Fitzgerald want inspiring memories The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. F. Scott Fitzgerald ripple voice rain Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight. F. Scott Fitzgerald remember-you fall thinking Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald average fiction art
