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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would

She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Past, Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1783, e-artnow

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wife, Mistress, Tangible
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.78, Pelekanos Books

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moving, Writing, Two
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgotten
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination, World, Slave
"The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boredom, Hatred, Desire
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.207, e-artnow

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Successful, Personality, Unbroken
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Long Ago, Gone, Care
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.111, e-artnow

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Break Up, Girl, Waiting
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drinking, Glasses, Drunk
"The Beautiful and Damned". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, pitchfork.com. 1922.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stories, Elements, Might

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Might, Flappers
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tired, Busy, Great Gatsby American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romantic, Thinking, Romance
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.231, e-artnow

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, Rude, Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.834, e-artnow

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mother, Two, Soul
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.287, e-artnow

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Complicated, Guides
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.296, e-artnow

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tired, Knowing Nothing, Knowing
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.435, e-artnow

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Greatest Love, Want

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Two, Loving You, Might

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Country, Beach, Doe
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.301, New Directions Publishing

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fun, Party, Home
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thankful, Kindness, Attitude
"The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Falling In Love, Sleep

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