Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Otuzuma girdim, dedim. Kendime yalan söyleyip bunun ad?na onur diyecek ya?? beÅŸ y?l geçtim.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

Amerikal?lar?n ara s?ra toprak kölesi olmay? istedikleri olur, ama köylü s?n?f?ndan olmaya kar?? hep direnmiÅŸlerdir.

single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.

a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-gray men who move dimly and already crumbling though the powdery air.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

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 you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

Action is character.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

There are no second acts in American lives.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Life cracked like ice!