Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms. F. Scott Fitzgerald lips arms kissing No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. F. Scott Fitzgerald basements matter lows Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald individual type writing I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald glimpse forever heart Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch. F. Scott Fitzgerald ice-cream girl men Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. F. Scott Fitzgerald bed sleep trying You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. F. Scott Fitzgerald here-and-there forget trying She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever. F. Scott Fitzgerald pockets safe forever Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. F. Scott Fitzgerald inspiration mistake witty Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. F. Scott Fitzgerald unbroken successful personality She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper. F. Scott Fitzgerald air waiting men Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. F. Scott Fitzgerald scotch wine drinking I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald romance romantic thinking An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald generations literature writing Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald satisfaction struggle cheating Never confuse activity with action. F. Scott Fitzgerald activity action i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires F. Scott Fitzgerald boredom hatred desire You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination. F. Scott Fitzgerald slave imagination world Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process. F. Scott Fitzgerald important creative art You remind me of a smoked cigarette. F. Scott Fitzgerald cigarette