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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Data, Three
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Great Gatsby”, p.110, Oxford University Press

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, France, Christ
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.485, e-artnow

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Doing You, May, Fool
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Say Anything, Together, Matter
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: 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.72, e-artnow

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Fashion, Forget
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pain, Choices, Sometimes
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Biographies, Unloved
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.595, e-artnow

An unread book is just a block of paper.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Block, Book, Unread Books

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, World, Want
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.1728, e-artnow

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Breaths
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.976, Simon and Schuster

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Common, Uncanny
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.658, e-artnow

Nothing any good isn't hard.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Hard
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Want, Facts

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Mixtures, Charming
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Judging, Rose, Would Be
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.310, VM eBooks

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quality, Four, May
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Education, Time, Positive Thinking
"The Crack-Up" (1936)

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Individual, Type
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories".

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Party, Privacy, Host
The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Children, Play, Strange
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.469, e-artnow

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Kissing, Night

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sad, Depressing, Morning
"Handle with Care" (1936)

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honesty, People, Virtue
The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Heart, Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.74, Atlântico Press

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