Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places. F. Scott Fitzgerald care travel But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. F. Scott Fitzgerald cooking hot food Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering F. Scott Fitzgerald cures despair suffering No decent career was ever founded on a public. F. Scott Fitzgerald decent careers I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence. F. Scott Fitzgerald style certain excellence It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do. F. Scott Fitzgerald self house boys If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much. F. Scott Fitzgerald clothes too-much mean Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you F. Scott Fitzgerald poetry-is poetry fire When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. F. Scott Fitzgerald lovely ordinary morning I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents. F. Scott Fitzgerald echoes parent children I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. F. Scott Fitzgerald party home fun It's a mining town in lotus land. F. Scott Fitzgerald lotuses hollywood land I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now. F. Scott Fitzgerald creativity tears blood I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur. F. Scott Fitzgerald sacrifice epic men You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads. F. Scott Fitzgerald hollywood half men Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. F. Scott Fitzgerald rich wealth different There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays. F. Scott Fitzgerald kissing girl men Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed. F. Scott Fitzgerald eye heart writing People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over. F. Scott Fitzgerald leadership men believe Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. F. Scott Fitzgerald grief seems steps
