F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

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“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:love dream care

“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:love romance

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:love sadness romance

“some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“two souls are sometimes created together and . . . in love before they're born.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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