F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

F. Scott Fitzgerald
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky, a young Minnesotan who seemed to have nothing to do with his generation did a heroic thing, and for a moment, people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams.

F. Scott Fitzgerald