Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. — 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
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Young Anthony had one picture of his father and mother together—so often had it faced his eyes in childhood that it had… — 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
“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanescent and dissolving sound - something the city was tossing up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What grubworms women are to crawl on their bellies through colorless marriages! Marriage was created not to be a background but to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You see, when you were little they kept sending me snap–shots of you, first as a baby and then as a child… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns… — 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