“There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was your little white soul I tried to keep near me- even when life was at its loudest and every intellectual… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — 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
“Life opened up in one if its amazing bursts of radiance and Amory suddenly and permanently rejected an old epigram that had… — 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
“The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the treas and a persistent organ sound as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher… — 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
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But after dark all that is most satisfactory in French life swims back into the picture—the sprightly tarts, the men arguing with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become… — 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
“His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go… — 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
“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
