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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
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GARRETT HEDLUND [About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself with...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' a...
ETHAN CANIN I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doo...
DAVID NICHOLLS I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ...
ROSAMUND PIKE Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was hi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed...
RICHARD FOREMAN Încercăm să ne alegem mijloacele și apoi luăm ce putem – și ne mai și bucurăm.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Douăzeci și cinci e prea cinică și sofisticată; treizeci e numai bună pentru paloarea excesulu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it'...
STEVE ERICKSON I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living th...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writin...
CHANG-RAE LEE The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scot...
AZAR NAFISI And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our bro...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We know what the canon is, and people can argue whether you should study F. Scott Fitzgerald or D.H....
JOHN BELL 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever com...
FRANK DELANEY I love (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, (Ernest) Hemingway, I love Bill Bryson. At the same time, I love the C...
SHARON CHANG I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the ...
THERESE FOWLER [Rap and hip hop today] come across ... the same way that jazz was embraced by the [Lost] Generation...
BILL FERRIS The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so ...
NELSON ALGREN College was hard, but it was nothing like this. Everybody just tried to get through the first day. C...
BRANDON BASS Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
DANNY WALLACE I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am c...
YAEL NAIM I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anyt...
GEORGE MCGOVERN She's an old woman who's very ugly. I was the oldest woman who tried out.
JULIE GRITTON For a spectator this was a great game to watch. You could tell they had the momentum, then we had it...
GUY VIRGILIO I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and cam...
FRANK ABAGNALE I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
CANDIS CAYNE I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly...
MICHAEL PALIN There was some wind but after nine holes it seemed to die down a little and I managed to play well.
KJ CHOI I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, a...
CHINUA ACHEBE I tried to throw my breaking ball, but nothing seemed to work, so I was behind in the count a lot. A...
FELIX HERNANDEZ There was pressure, but I tried not to think about it. I just tried to go out and play hard. The pre...
JARRAD HENRY I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around...
JANE PAULEY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Dale could, in the blink of an eye, make you so mad, you wanted to go over and sock him. Then he'd g...
BILL DAVIS I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people s...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL I was not expecting to find a newspaper that old. I thought maybe World War I . . . or an Amelia Ear...
JOY ANDERSON I was a very passionate basketball player, really enjoyed the sport. I played it my entire life.
BROCK OSWEILER I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried...
FANTASIA BARRINO I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life...
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CARLY FIORINA I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got...
KIP WINGER People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective...
TIM BURTON It was very similar to the game we had last week. We got a big lead and they came back hard. They're...
JOE BRENNAN I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long tim...
CRAIG FERGUSON Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die
WILLIAM PENN I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Di...
JOHN CUSACK Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
DAN QUAYLE I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to de...
CAROL BELLAMY The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy ...
JACK REYNOR Lee tried to kill me and that wasn't nice. I came through it and I gained great heart.
KEVIN PIETERSEN I knew it was a great job but, the more I dug and the more I came up and the more I interviewed, I r...
NORWOOD TEAGUE My father, Raymond F. Yates, was a successful writer of technical nonfiction and such a life seemed ...
BROCK YATES I took my old Carnation Milk truck. It was my favorite toy, but then some of my friends came to scho...
DAVID REED I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christi...
ANDY GRIFFITH I thought we came out with great intensity and were very smart with the ball. They then frustrated u...
CINDY TIMCHAL He kept working and got better every game. He wanted to have a great year, and he just tried very ha...
ARCHIE SHERBINOW When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one underst...
VICKI LAWRENCE The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to ho...
PETER ABRAHAMS At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War. Major battles numbered the dead in the thousands; even m...
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JUDITH MILLER I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the spo...
ERIC WILLIAMS It was a hard cutter in, and I just tried to fight it off.
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ULRICH BECK When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA I tried and tried and tried to call her. It was very emotional for me.
MARSHA NORMAN My horse tried real hard and I was very proud of him.
EDGAR PRADO I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairm...
ZAHA HADID My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER It was very, very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly.
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BHARATI MUKHERJEE I had a great run today but I was very fortunate not to have injured myself yesterday when I lost th...
CHRISTOPH GRUBER I tried a little too hard early. I pitched like it was a playoff game. We needed to win. The guys ca...
JOHN SMOLTZ I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made...
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GREG MATTISON When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then...
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PELE It looks dangerous, but this is a very safe sport. That's a really hard thing to explain to people. ...
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growi...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little foo...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Está bien", dije, "estoy agradecida de que sea una niña. Y espero que ella sea una tonta... eso es...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rat...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental pe...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elud...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the wor...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I know myself, but that is all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tr...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, c...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suf...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discip...
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thin...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the s...
F SCOTT FITZGERALD Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of th...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a chil...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like ac...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chose...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we h...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Chaque fois que tu te prépares à critiquer quelqu'un, m'a-t-il dit, souviens-toi qu'en venant sur ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…
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 There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a vio...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoo...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as di...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."

Their eyes met, and they stared together at each oth...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There are no second acts in American lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying s...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he ki...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a qua...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partial...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...
F SCOTT FITZGERALD He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The decision as to when to quit, as to when one is merely floundering around and causing other peopl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Action is character.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Her voice is full of money.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy earl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that ac...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It takes two to make an accident.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not throu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne a...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sa...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Încercăm să ne alegem mijloacele și apoi luăm ce putem – și ne mai și bucurăm.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Douăzeci și cinci e prea cinică și sofisticată; treizeci e numai bună pentru paloarea excesulu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, mo...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even tha...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come acros...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rare...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the worl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD