F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#growth #growth

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #rules #slow-thinking #love

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#writing #artists

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humor #age

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nothing #obnoxious #other #people

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#new-york-city #beauty

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#imagination

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everything #heavy #never #nothing #tired

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#people #respect #vanity #life

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love