sentence prompts ➝ f. scott fitzgerald
‘ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ’
‘ The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ’
‘ Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy. ’
‘ That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. ’
‘ I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ’
‘ I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. ’
‘ I love her and it is the beginning of everything. ’
‘ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ’
‘ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ’
‘ I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. ’
‘ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ’
‘ 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. ’
‘ You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ’
‘ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ’
‘ You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. ’
‘ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ’
‘ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ’
‘ Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. ’
‘ Things are sweeter when they’re lost. ’
’ There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. ’
‘ Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ’
‘ First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ’
‘ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ’
‘ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ’
‘ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ’
‘ I’m a cynical idealist. ’
‘ New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. ’
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