People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationships, Chaos, Human Behavior, Social Dynamics, Life’s Randomness
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Poverty | Ideal Self | Innate Qualities | Pain | Advertising | Life Stages | Illusions | Risk | Affection | Desolation | Perspective | Foreshadowing | Sadness | Desire | Reality | Provocation | Music | Ending | Intentions | Consequences | More
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Resilience, Perspective, Failure, Hope, Perseverance
F. Scott Fitzgerald Resilience, Perspective, Failure, Hope, Perseverance“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Audience, Generations, Legacy, Literary Impact
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing, Audience, Generations, Legacy, Literary Impact“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance
F. Scott Fitzgerald Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance“Shakespeare – whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shakespeare, Literature, Reading Experience, Emotion, Intellectual Stimulation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Shakespeare, Literature, Reading Experience, Emotion, Intellectual Stimulation“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“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“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them – this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York, Patriotism, Post-war Euphoria, National Pride, Atmosphere
F. Scott Fitzgerald New York, Patriotism, Post-war Euphoria, National Pride, Atmosphere“But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over, and around a dike.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madness, Adaptability, Metaphor, Resilience, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Madness, Adaptability, Metaphor, Resilience, Human Nature“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Independent Thinking, Power, Individuality, Conformity, Freedom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Independent Thinking, Power, Individuality, Conformity, Freedom“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created – nothing.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Individuality, Stereotypes, Creativity, Writing, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Individuality, Stereotypes, Creativity, Writing, Observation“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Biography, Complexity, Identity, Creativity
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing, Biography, Complexity, Identity, Creativity“Unloved women have no biographies – they have histories.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Women, Biography, History, Social Commentary
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Women, Biography, History, Social Commentary“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pessimism, Danger, Perspective, Psychology, Irony
F. Scott Fitzgerald Pessimism, Danger, Perspective, Psychology, Irony“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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationships, Intimacy, Change, Impact, Human Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Relationships, Intimacy, Change, Impact, Human Connection“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
F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage, Ambition, Performance, Life Goals, Individuality“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“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