It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Materialism, Beauty, Sadness, Wealth, Desire
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“You can love more than just one person, can't you?” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Polyamory, Human Nature, Relationships, Questioning
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Polyamory, Human Nature, Relationships, Questioning“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art, Greatness, Criticism, Standards, Creativity
F. Scott Fitzgerald Art, Greatness, Criticism, Standards, Creativity“Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers, Identity, Creativity, Multifaceted Nature, Artistic Process
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writers, Identity, Creativity, Multifaceted Nature, Artistic Process“The present was the thing – work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Present, Love, Work, Parenting, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Present, Love, Work, Parenting, Relationships“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personality, Success, Behavior, Human Nature, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Personality, Success, Behavior, Human Nature, Observation“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cruelty, Psychology, Human Nature, Childhood, Behavior
F. Scott Fitzgerald Cruelty, Psychology, Human Nature, Childhood, Behavior“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self-perception, Social Anxiety, Human Nature, Opinion, Psychology
F. Scott Fitzgerald Self-perception, Social Anxiety, Human Nature, Opinion, Psychology“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing Advice, Emotion, Creativity, Storytelling, Technique
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing Advice, Emotion, Creativity, Storytelling, Technique“Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Switzerland, Beginnings, Endings, Observation, Cultural Commentary
F. Scott Fitzgerald Switzerland, Beginnings, Endings, Observation, Cultural Commentary“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rebellion, Social Norms, Decadence, Party, Provocation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Rebellion, Social Norms, Decadence, Party, Provocation“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth, Aging, Life, Perspective, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth, Aging, Life, Perspective, Human Nature“It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Insomnia, Individuality, Hopes, Human Nature, Sleep
F. Scott Fitzgerald Insomnia, Individuality, Hopes, Human Nature, Sleep“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Desire, Attraction, Gender Dynamics, Perception, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Desire, Attraction, Gender Dynamics, Perception, Human Nature“Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Transience, Growth, Limitations, Human Condition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Transience, Growth, Limitations, Human Condition“It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Identity, Freedom, Emptiness, Desire, Self-discovery
F. Scott Fitzgerald Identity, Freedom, Emptiness, Desire, Self-discovery“Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boredom, Creativity, Process, Art, Life Philosophy
F. Scott Fitzgerald Boredom, Creativity, Process, Art, Life Philosophy“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Patriotism, Priorities, Humor, Food, Politics
F. Scott Fitzgerald Patriotism, Priorities, Humor, Food, Politics“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Behavior, Identity, Philosophy, Human Nature, Self-definition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Behavior, Identity, Philosophy, Human Nature, Self-definition