Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting – it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marriage, Ambition, Performance, Life Goals, Individuality
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“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol, Self-perception, Coping Mechanism, Advice, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Alcohol, Self-perception, Coping Mechanism, Advice, Human Nature“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creativity, Meetings, Ideas, Critique, Organizational Culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald Creativity, Meetings, Ideas, Critique, Organizational Culture“Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art, Creativity, Passion, Life Purpose, Perspective
F. Scott Fitzgerald Art, Creativity, Passion, Life Purpose, Perspective“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Responsibility, Gender Stereotypes, Social Commentary, Irony
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Responsibility, Gender Stereotypes, Social Commentary, Irony“A writer wastes nothing.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Creativity, Resourcefulness, Experience, Craft
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing, Creativity, Resourcefulness, Experience, Craft“There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring, Emotion, Atmosphere, Love, Contentment
F. Scott Fitzgerald Spring, Emotion, Atmosphere, Love, Contentment“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you – like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist – or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry, Passion, Art, Creativity, Criticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Poetry, Passion, Art, Creativity, Criticism“I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Writing, Coping, Passion, Creativity
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Writing, Coping, Passion, Creativity“It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rudeness, Human Behavior, Perspective, Empathy, Social Interaction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Rudeness, Human Behavior, Perspective, Empathy, Social Interaction“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selfishness, Love, Human Nature, Contradiction, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Selfishness, Love, Human Nature, Contradiction, Relationships“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Connection, Perception, Intimacy, Human Interaction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Connection, Perception, Intimacy, Human Interaction“I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gender Roles, Beauty, Intelligence, Social Commentary, Cynicism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Gender Roles, Beauty, Intelligence, Social Commentary, Cynicism“Learn young about hard work and manners – and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life Advice, Work Ethic, Manners, Cynicism, Mortality
F. Scott Fitzgerald Life Advice, Work Ethic, Manners, Cynicism, Mortality“I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness, Understanding, Perspective, Morality, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness, Understanding, Perspective, Morality, Human Nature“An unread book is just a block of paper.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading, Knowledge, Potential, Books, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading, Knowledge, Potential, Books, Wisdom“It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Understanding, Self-perception, Ideal Self, Human Connection, Empathy
F. Scott Fitzgerald Understanding, Self-perception, Ideal Self, Human Connection, Empathy“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Future, Uncertainty, Time, Existential Question, Life Planning
F. Scott Fitzgerald Future, Uncertainty, Time, Existential Question, Life Planning