F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.”

“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.”

“I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.”

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”

“I've got an adjective that just fits you.”

“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.”

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”

“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

“Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”

“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”

“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”