“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Dear little Dot, life is so damned hard." She was crying upon his shoulder. "So damned hard, so damned hard," he repeated… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Each life unfulfilled, you see, It hangs still, patchy and scrappy; We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was the sun, letting down great glowing masses of heat; there was life, active and snarling, moving about them like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We'll all be failures?" "Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it -three minutes; to collect the data in it-… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime… — 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
