“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If I knew words enough I could write you the longest love-letter in the world—and never get tired.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald