It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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EURIPEDES I want to F. Scott Fitzgerald. An autobiography, written by me.
HANNAH HOBSON In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ...
ROSAMUND PIKE Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you fee...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scot...
AZAR NAFISI Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it'...
STEVE ERICKSON We know what the canon is, and people can argue whether you should study F. Scott Fitzgerald or D.H....
JOHN BELL F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was hi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I love (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, (Ernest) Hemingway, I love Bill Bryson. At the same time, I love the C...
SHARON CHANG In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself with...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our bro...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever com...
FRANK DELANEY we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' a...
ETHAN CANIN I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doo...
DAVID NICHOLLS Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writin...
CHANG-RAE LEE We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want ch...
MICHELLE PAVER I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter...
AUDRE LORDE I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
CARL HIAASEN Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for th...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave...
BEN CARSON I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the ...
THERESE FOWLER Human sympathy has its limits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could ...
STEPHEN MERCHANT I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more characte...
GEORGE CLOONEY We made more mistakes today than they did, and that's why they won. To their credit, they did a bett...
HARRY PETERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... They are deeper than we are, they won the physical battle, no doubt about it. Their depth hurt us, t...
BOB WRIGHT I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald di...
AL JARREAU If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
T.S. ELIOT Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is th...
YEHUDA BERG I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the p...
MELES ZENAWI They wanted it more than we did. It meant more to them than it did to us.
DAVE ROBBINS They made more baskets than we did, but we made more free throws and that's what won the game.
FRANK ROSSI People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil...
GERHARD RICHTER First of all, we did not sign any agreement. I think that we are patriots who are trying to save our...
YOSSI BEILIN When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won...
MITCH DANIELS The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than an...
STEVE JOBS Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sig...
TOM ROBBINS Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I married her after knowing her eight days, and I was happy. That was my baby. At the same time, wit...
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. We didn't like that moment in time any more than the customer did.
JAMES CALLAWAY Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think o...
CATHY GUISEWITE If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They ...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
WALSHY FIRE Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despai...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won&...
BRUCE GREENWOOD More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don'...
ANNE SEBBA Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse...
RACHEL JOYCE Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and th...
SINBAD In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about ...
JASMINE GUINNESS There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we...
DEBORAH TANNEN I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou...
PATRICK STUMP I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes m...
ELENA SATINE What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But...
JOHN GAY What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are...
KAMALA HARRIS They say in heaven love comes first, but even though it is a beautiful and powerful emotion does it ...
GARY F EVANS... The fact that we've won two (championships) now is maybe more than any of us expected.
RONNIE WHITE I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we d...
BOBBY KNIGHT The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
MIKE HUCKABEE Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We oft...
SHEENA IYENGAR More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.
MISTY COPELAND I thought West Florida wanted it more than we did tonight. They hurt us in transition, killed us on ...
JEFF KELLER There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know abou...
CHARLES DURNING Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important ...
DAVID ROSE They wanted it more than us, and that's why they won. We just didn't execute as well as we should on...
ANGIE BJORKLUND Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it n...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.
PAUL TERRY We had more opportunities than they did in the second half and I'm going to say we had just as many ...
HARVEY GAMBLE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomo...
NOAH GRAY-CABEY I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've...
SCOTTY MCCREERY I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than ...
DANIEL BERRIGAN In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions i...
STEVEN MAGEE I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
T. BOONE PICKENS Oh, I love it. I love that guy. I wish he didn?t have a girlfriend, ... Did I say that out loud? I d...
CHRISTIAN FAURIA
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come acros...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rare...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the worl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD