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Aging3 quotes
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 · 1925At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920It 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 · 1940The rich2 quotes
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926They 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 · 1925Adversity1 quote
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 · 1940America1 quote
There are no second acts in American lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1940Being in love1 quote
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 · 1934Connecting with others1 quote
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Contradiction1 quote
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 · 1936Convictions1 quote
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Downsides of wealth1 quote
The victor belongs to the spoils. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922Economic inequality1 quote
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926Effects of the past1 quote
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Emotional scars1 quote
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 · 1934Friendship1 quote
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Heroes1 quote
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1940Ideas1 quote
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 · 1936Intelligence1 quote
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 · 1936Killing time1 quote
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Literature1 quote
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 · 1938Love1 quote
The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Missed opportunities1 quote
The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Nature of life1 quote
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 · 1940New York City1 quote
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 · 1925Patriarchy1 quote
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Personal chemistry1 quote
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Power of literature1 quote
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 · 1938Punctuation1 quote
An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. — F. Scott FitzgeraldPurpose of life1 quote
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Redemption1 quote
There are no second acts in American lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1940Second chances1 quote
There are no second acts in American lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1940Shoot your shot1 quote
The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920