For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's… — 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
It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and… — 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
