Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — 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
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
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
“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
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
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the… — 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
“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
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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of… — 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
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — 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
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
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
“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I… — 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
“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted… — 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
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as 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
“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but 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
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. — 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
“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
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
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
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
