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21 " I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth... "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Beautiful and Damned
22 " I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. "
23 " That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night) "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
24 " Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender Is the Night
25 " He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. "
26 " You've got an awfully kissable mouth. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Gatsby Girls
27 " I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. "
28 " It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people. "
29 " I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby
30 " Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise
31 " 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. "
32 " Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Crack-Up
33 " I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. "
34 " My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss. "
35 " Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
36 " An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. "
37 " Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen. "
38 " So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. "
39 " My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. "
40 " I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , A Short Autobiography