Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald Nothing any good isn't hard. F. Scott Fitzgerald hardwriting A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. F. Scott Fitzgerald realairdream A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken... F. Scott Fitzgerald generationsmenwar First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald new-yeardrinkingfunny I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know. F. Scott Fitzgerald knowswantwonderful It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life. F. Scott Fitzgerald guidescomplicatedstruggle It takes two to make an accident. F. Scott Fitzgerald accidentstwo Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. F. Scott Fitzgerald jealousygood-lucksuccess 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 exercisemenmean Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. F. Scott Fitzgerald writingtryingpeople I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. F. Scott Fitzgerald librarydrunkbook She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. F. Scott Fitzgerald her-beautyglancesagony No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald bornfoolishideas Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! F. Scott Fitzgerald hatsgoldmoving She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. F. Scott Fitzgerald grieflonelinessdone Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. F. Scott Fitzgerald dronesmusicianfire She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. F. Scott Fitzgerald confusedexpressionself I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald russiagirlhate I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words. F. Scott Fitzgerald wishwritingideas Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. F. Scott Fitzgerald apologylater-in-lifefeet
