F. Scott Fitzgerald: Want (page 2)

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”

“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”

“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.”

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

“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”

“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”

“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

“She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”

“I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”

“He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.”

“he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.”

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”

“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”

“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”