I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

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

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

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all...

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all...

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values....

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values....

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that...

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that...