F. Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#passive #beauty

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #men #love

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #beauty

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#imagination #imagination

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nature

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#funny-quotes #gatsby #love #sarcasm #tom

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#procrastination #procrastination

Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #simplicity