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“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Ice Palace and Other Stories

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: All the Sad Young Men

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

--The Sensible Thing”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Offshore Pirate

Quoted, Short Stories
Source: The Offshore Pirate

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby