“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
“My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis--… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined… — 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
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's… — 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
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. — 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
A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” — 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
