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
“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
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Then I heard footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — 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
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.”… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a hint in the air that the earth was hurrying on toward other weather; the lush midsummer moment outside of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream… — 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
