F. Scott Fitzgerald — Quotes from Author's Books

Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ’All right,’ I said, ’I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

“Did you have fun?”
“Just as much fun as anybody has running away from things."

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning...
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me.

It takes two to make an accident.

..no one nature can extend entirely inside another....

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

The totality of a life may be different in quality from its segments.

I don’t like innuendo in these deafening English whispers.