“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
Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“New friends,” he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude… — 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
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
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — 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
Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he… — 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
