The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of… — 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
Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image