"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Romantic
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
More From F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."
- "I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
- "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material."
More In Romantic
- "Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place."― Margaret Drabble
- "The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last."― Andrew Sullivan
- "The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."― Irwin Shaw