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  • #1
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #2
    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, This Side of Paradise

  • #3
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You'll find another.'
    God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #4
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #6
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #7
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #8
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...

    He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.

    I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #9
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “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.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “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, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “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.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Amory: I love you.
    Rosalind: I love you- now.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #21
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #22
    Philip K. Dick
    “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #23
    Philip K. Dick
    “I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
    Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

  • #24
    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #25
    Philip K. Dick
    “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #26
    Philip K. Dick
    “Everything in life is just for a while.”
    Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

  • #27
    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #28
    Philip K. Dick
    “No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
    Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

  • #29
    Philip K. Dick
    “A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
    Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby



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