Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered… — 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
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“After slipping on a negligee and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became conscious that she was miserable and that the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was the sun, letting down great glowing masses of heat; there was life, active and snarling, moving about them like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it -three minutes; to collect the data in it-… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — 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
