“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.… — 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
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,… — 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
“You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as… — 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
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on… — 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
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down… — 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
“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…” — 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
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through… — 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
“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm… — 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
