Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Femininity, Potential, Description, Human Nature
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More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth, Disillusionment, Self-reflection, Life, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth, Disillusionment, Self-reflection, Life, Human Nature“This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do – and wouldn't last.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationships, Transience, Appreciation, Ending, Human Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Relationships, Transience, Appreciation, Ending, Human Connection“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romance, Freedom, Gender Roles, Relationships, Social Norms
F. Scott Fitzgerald Romance, Freedom, Gender Roles, Relationships, Social Norms“Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Vitality, Description, Human Nature, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Vitality, Description, Human Nature, Perception“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Creativity, Quality, Inspiration, Literary Criticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing, Creativity, Quality, Inspiration, Literary Criticism“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wealth, Aimlessness, Privilege, Travel, Social Class
F. Scott Fitzgerald Wealth, Aimlessness, Privilege, Travel, Social Class“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Judgment, Open-mindedness, Human Nature, Experience, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Judgment, Open-mindedness, Human Nature, Experience, Wisdom“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Humor, Universality, Human Condition, Irony
F. Scott Fitzgerald Life, Humor, Universality, Human Condition, Irony“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire – I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Hope, Responsibility, Control, Human Potential
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Hope, Responsibility, Control, Human Potential“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gender Bias, Dishonesty, Double Standards, Social Commentary, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Gender Bias, Dishonesty, Double Standards, Social Commentary, Relationships“I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Vulnerability, Inexperience, Human Nature, Self-awareness
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Vulnerability, Inexperience, Human Nature, Self-awareness“It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Melancholy, Nostalgia, Regret, Transience, Appreciation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Melancholy, Nostalgia, Regret, Transience, Appreciation“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Restlessness, Fear Of Stagnation, Adventure, Love, Domesticity
F. Scott Fitzgerald Restlessness, Fear Of Stagnation, Adventure, Love, Domesticity“Love is fragile – she was thinking – but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Fragility, Memory, Growth, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Fragility, Memory, Growth, Relationships“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Realization, Perception, Character Development, Aspiration
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Realization, Perception, Character Development, Aspiration“Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wealth, Youth, Class Divide, Materialism, Social Critique
F. Scott Fitzgerald Wealth, Youth, Class Divide, Materialism, Social Critique“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
Intelligence, Contradiction, Cognitive Ability, Mental Flexibility, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Intelligence, Contradiction, Cognitive Ability, Mental Flexibility, Wisdom“That's the whole burden of this novel – the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Illusion, Disillusionment, Truth, Beauty, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Illusion, Disillusionment, Truth, Beauty, Perception