76 Quotes About Fitzgerald

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?""Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant.

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]