The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
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.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scen...
Character is plot, plot is character.
I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to y...
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
We all have souls of different ages
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those int...
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
America is a willingness of the heart.
The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely...
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the s...
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.