Scott Quotes
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)
Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.
Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
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.
My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.
The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
:...For animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.
You freaking bit me, " I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control.
Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.
We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back’s not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all
The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.
One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.
I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever
On Saturday mornings Mr Ewing would make his rounds, giving each tradesman £1 and the apprentices, ten shillings. Needless to say, we were all peeping around corners awaiting his arrival!
I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.