F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trending quotes

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

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

“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.”

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”

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

“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.”

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

“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.”