I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald eight twenties two Optimism is the content of small men in high places. F. Scott Fitzgerald investing optimism men The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. F. Scott Fitzgerald giants men two Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. F. Scott Fitzgerald frustrating surprising Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery. F. Scott Fitzgerald love romantic needs Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. F. Scott Fitzgerald law laughing believe For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. F. Scott Fitzgerald whistling quitting literature Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained. F. Scott Fitzgerald inspiration should thinking The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country. F. Scott Fitzgerald college education country Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. F. Scott Fitzgerald switzerland ends country The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more. F. Scott Fitzgerald girl running years One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. F. Scott Fitzgerald dozen girl beauty The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. F. Scott Fitzgerald overwhelming-urge struggle writing It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald buttons want too-late There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald passion dream heart The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. F. Scott Fitzgerald city-lights paris america She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous. F. Scott Fitzgerald horse laughter moving Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. F. Scott Fitzgerald great-gatsby-book virtue literature It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day. F. Scott Fitzgerald light air islands Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. F. Scott Fitzgerald homosexuality fairy boys
