“To Scottie June 12, 1940 p.451 ...don't take the things in which you can get 'A', for you can learn them yourself.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“That's my Middle West - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Who is he anyhow, an actor?" "No." "A dentist?" "...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;… — 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
