“Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]…Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When a United States Senator after his election has to look up the principles of Marxism by which one-sixth of the world… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
![“The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]…Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, ‘Fascist,’ ‘Liberal,’ ‘Trotskyist,’ and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ab/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_anticommunism_the-important-thing-is-that-you-should-n_1609630.jpg)
![“We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c15/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_anticensorship_we-have-reached-a-censorship-barrier-in_1156977.jpg)
