“Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that… — 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 college dreamed on-- awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The… — 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
The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he… — 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
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
