This Side of Paradise Quotes

“Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:men faith food

“You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:wisdom

“If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:evil

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:belief

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:work money

“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:hope romance

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:books importance

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:youth

“Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:action

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:experience

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