Hope Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even…

— Maureen Corrigan

“When they met again two days later it was Gatsby who was breathless, who was somehow betrayed. Her porch was bright with the bought…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She had caught a cold and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And in it's magical pattern there was now a new element, a new glow, a cast of a golden colour which suffused everything, the…

— Peter Carey

“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this…

— Ivan Goncharov

“suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn.…

— James Hilton

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate…

— Oscar Wilde