“It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito… — 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
“She would be twenty-nine in February. The month assumed an ominous and inescapable significance—making her wonder, through these nebulous half-fevered hours whether… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As the conversation continued in stilted commas, Anthony wondered that to him and Bloeckman both this girl had once been the most… — 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
“that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. "Then” — 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
“He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What's death to me is just a lot of words to you. You put em' together so pretty.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and,… — 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