All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Feelings”

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where thereâ€™s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”
“If you spend your life sparing peopleâ€™s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you canâ€™t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
“Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respectâ€”you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.”
“As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.”
“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
“A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.”

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