“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
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, 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
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
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to… — 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
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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
“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
...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
“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
“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — 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
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays… — 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
“Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.” — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
