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 I used to build dreams about you. F. Scott Fitzgerald usedhatedream Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald mixturescharmingmen To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald datathreewriting Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges. F. Scott Fitzgerald bores-youpastart Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. F. Scott Fitzgerald green-lightsarmsrunning You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell. F. Scott Fitzgerald heartwritingpeople mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born. F. Scott Fitzgerald soulmothertwo They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. F. Scott Fitzgerald wedding-speechi-hate-youreading And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. F. Scott Fitzgerald hostprivacyparty Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that. F. Scott Fitzgerald judgingwould-berose In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald depressingsadmorning Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. F. Scott Fitzgerald kindnessattitudethankful His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. F. Scott Fitzgerald consciousnessliteraturefirsts The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald positive-thinkingeducationtime A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes. F. Scott Fitzgerald elementsstoriesmight There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald confusionsimplemind He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. F. Scott Fitzgerald confusedpastideas Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. F. Scott Fitzgerald progressivematterlife-is Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. F. Scott Fitzgerald sacrificeemotionalresponsibility Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. F. Scott Fitzgerald virtuehonestypeople
