Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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

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

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.