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F. Scott Fitzgerald20 quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925I 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 · 1934The 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 · 1925One 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 · 1934Thirty—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 · 1925All 20 quotes →