Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day. F. Scott Fitzgerald summer dream spring It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. F. Scott Fitzgerald great-gatsby-important eye looks A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion. F. Scott Fitzgerald fashion successful book No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald heart love men He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. F. Scott Fitzgerald girl mind forever But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down. F. Scott Fitzgerald ambition struggle memories Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! F. Scott Fitzgerald missing waiting years Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald story-writers keys writing I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. F. Scott Fitzgerald great-gatsby-love desire thinking No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. F. Scott Fitzgerald honesty truth men The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? F. Scott Fitzgerald want may country How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. F. Scott Fitzgerald broken law insanity Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. F. Scott Fitzgerald simple fear inspiring my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. F. Scott Fitzgerald imagination dark looks I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. F. Scott Fitzgerald feelings heart people Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way. F. Scott Fitzgerald persons littles way You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. F. Scott Fitzgerald block reading book When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. F. Scott Fitzgerald confusion taken people The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. F. Scott Fitzgerald technology atheist years The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald spoil literature
