That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — 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
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back… — 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 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
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
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
“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
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
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black… — 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
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents… — 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
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness. Indeed, I accomplished the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely … — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — 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
