Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. — 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
Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long… — 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
“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
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Then I heard footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for 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
“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He's a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a hint in the air that the earth was hurrying on toward other weather; the lush midsummer moment outside of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one… — 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