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“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Crack-Up

Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&amp;q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&amp;pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945) <br class="br">Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: “I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

“We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.
"Five years next November."
The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“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. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two… Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Last Tycoon

“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.