So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently. — 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
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Back out,’ he suggested after a moment. ‘Put her in reverse.’ ‘But the WHEEL’S off!’ He hesitated. ‘No harm in trying,’ he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put… — 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
“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
“She looked up at him as he took a step toward the door; she looked at him without the slightest idea as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Then for a moment they faded into the sweet darkness so deep that they were darker than the darkness, so that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I've told you many times that the first thing I decide is the kind of story I want. (...) This is not… — 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
“It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole’s problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of… — 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 must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — 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
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a… — 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
“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
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been… — 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
“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround… — 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
“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if… — 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
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — 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
“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
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had… — 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
![“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
