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41 " Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
42 " Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. "
43 " Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it. "
44 " By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby
45 " Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. "
46 " He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. "
47 " I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. "
48 " Human sympathy has its limits. "
49 " The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap. "
50 " my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise
51 " They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. "
52 " New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender Is the Night
53 " Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head. "
54 " Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald] "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence
55 " Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'. "
56 " There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Love of the Last Tycoon
57 " For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , A Short Autobiography
58 " Breathing dreams like air "
59 " It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions. "
60 " The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion. "