Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind F. Scott Fitzgerald ablemindtwo She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all. F. Scott Fitzgerald pressurefeelingsworld I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. F. Scott Fitzgerald mindwantpeople We all have souls of different ages F. Scott Fitzgerald differentsoulage Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are. F. Scott Fitzgerald secretwantpeople Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. F. Scott Fitzgerald autumnpositivityfall The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams. F. Scott Fitzgerald paindreamprofound When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right. F. Scott Fitzgerald breathe There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. F. Scott Fitzgerald great-gatsby-american-dreamtiredbusy So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry. F. Scott Fitzgerald coursessorry You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination. F. Scott Fitzgerald intelligentlove-youbeautiful Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald tender-is-the-nightspacepeople I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits. F. Scott Fitzgerald flapperskissingmight Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide F. Scott Fitzgerald eyemeanpeople Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald moving-onmotivationalinspirational You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known. F. Scott Fitzgerald known I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald lovelifebelieve It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. F. Scott Fitzgerald literaturefunny-friendlove I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald heartloveromantic She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him. F. Scott Fitzgerald heartmenpast
