FAMOUS QUOTES BY F SCOTT FITZGERALD

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful for the way she thought. She was beautiful for that sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”

“You don’t write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.”

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES TO DAUGHTER FROM MOTHER

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

“The best way to learn about life is to learn from those who have lived it.”

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You’ll realize what’s changed is you.”

“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.”