Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful ...”

“For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.”

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

“My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.”

“Thats going to be your trouble judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)”

“Breathing dreams like air”

“It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions.”

“The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was complete...”

“Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to hi...”

“Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality thr...”

“. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .”

“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, withou...”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

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

“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”

“They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him f...”

“Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.”

“The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, Fascist, Libe...”

“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.”

“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...”