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“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers

Source: Flappers and Philosophers

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Ice Palace

Source: The Ice Palace

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Last Tycoon

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories