Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, fully Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
American Novelist, Short-Story Writer best known for The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night which were both made into films
"You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."
"You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans."
"You're very polite, but I belong to another generation."
"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
"You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
"You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional."
"You're simply stubborn. You think you don't want to be like any one else. You always have been that way, and you always will be. But just think how it would be if every one else looked at things as you do — what would the world be like?"
"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
"Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood--she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
"You've got an awfully kissable mouth."