F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#inspirational #inspirational

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

#women #beauty

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#memories #want

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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#summer #life

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#tragedy

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#greatness

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#business

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#amity #love #love