So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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. You belong.
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
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.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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.
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.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
