F. Scott Fitzgerald

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curse #pretty-girls #rosalind-connage #steel #trial

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#inspirational

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life-lessons #inspirational

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#quotes-i-love #love

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#friendship

There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love