Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald spoil literature Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. F. Scott Fitzgerald afternoon happiness past But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room. F. Scott Fitzgerald voice struggle dream She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself F. Scott Fitzgerald prolonging flower conscious Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. F. Scott Fitzgerald ohio quality children I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters. F. Scott Fitzgerald destiny strong morning They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class. F. Scott Fitzgerald dream believe children It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory. F. Scott Fitzgerald simple beautiful meaningful Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it. F. Scott Fitzgerald paradox individuality hollywood Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two. F. Scott Fitzgerald kissing fun book It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water. F. Scott Fitzgerald decision water years Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss. F. Scott Fitzgerald nancy kissing mouths Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. F. Scott Fitzgerald real sometimes character All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream F. Scott Fitzgerald girl taken dream I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. F. Scott Fitzgerald fading dies want Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage. F. Scott Fitzgerald different littles giving At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. F. Scott Fitzgerald loneliness twilight night I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt. F. Scott Fitzgerald drawing two years When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run. F. Scott Fitzgerald fashion drinking running Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. F. Scott Fitzgerald rising bed thinking
