F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes — Page 25

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Philosophical

“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”

People Taken Confusion

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Love

“Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

Looks Moments Clouds

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Melancholic

“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.”

Men Blow Weakness

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Inspired

“She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.”

Self Expression Confused

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Love

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”

Moving Gold Hats

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Sad

“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

Book Library Drunk

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Wise

“The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.”

Believe Father Mistake

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Lonely

“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.”

Self Expression Loneliness

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Angry

“Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.”

Giving Littles Different

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Calm

“It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.”

Dream Laughter Sunshine

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Love

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”

People Heart Feelings

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Inspired

“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”

Writing Ideas Wish

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