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Person·F. Scott Fitzgerald✕clear

An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

★ 1.3

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.1

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 2.2

Novel · Magazine

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine · 1922

★ 2.2

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.2

Essay · Magazine

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1936

★ 3.6

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1938

★ 3.6

The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

★ 3.6

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920

★ 3.7

Personal journal

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

★ 3.7

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1926

★ 3.8

Personal journal

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

★ 3.8

There are no second acts in American lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

★ 3.8

The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 3.9

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 3.9

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night · 1934

★ 5.4

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 5.5

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night · 1934

★ 5.5

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 7.3