“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You could say that this was where an accidental wind blew him but I don't think so. I would rather think that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“New York, he supposed, was home—the city of luxury and mystery, of preposterous hopes and exotic dreams.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative temperament’—it was an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another sigh came from the window-- quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She seems hopeful and normally hungry for life — even rather romantic.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It… — 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
