F. Scott FitzgeraldA new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). The Great Gatsby, p.162, Br… ▶361Truth
F. Scott FitzgeraldI avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Sho… ▶361LoveReading
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. … ▶361Sadness
F. Scott FitzgeraldEvery one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)372Death
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. ✨ The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'372HopeTime
F. Scott FitzgeraldI felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). F… ▶372LifeTime
F. Scott FitzgeraldThirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)361Truth
F. Scott FitzgeraldMany nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras play… ▶361Death
F. Scott FitzgeraldLove is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, an… ▶361LoveThought
F. Scott FitzgeraldIf that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). The Great Ga… ▶361LifeTruth
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The G… ▶372Time
F. Scott FitzgeraldMost people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disappro… ▶361HumanityLoveReading
F. Scott Fitzgeraldhe used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it i… ▶361LoveReadingThought
F. Scott FitzgeraldThat however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: No… ▶373LoveReadingThought
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald… ▶373LoveReading
F. Scott Fitzgeraldbut there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Echoes of the Jazz A… ▶373Life
F. Scott FitzgeraldI know myself, he cried, but that is all- ✨ This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)351Time
F. Scott FitzgeraldI don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it w… ▶351HopeLoveThought
F. Scott Fitzgeraldhe was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Complete Works of F. Scott F… ▶374LoveReading
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.363Death
F. Scott Fitzgeraldthe cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in t… ▶363LoveReading
F. Scott Fitzgerald...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). The Great Gatsby, p.100, … ▶374LoveThought
F. Scott FitzgeraldAt fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). F. Scott … ▶363Reading
F. Scott FitzgeraldThose days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). This Side of Paradise, p.142, Xist Publishing352Time
F. Scott FitzgeraldWe all have souls of different ages ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon R… ▶364Philosophy
F. Scott FitzgeraldRosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, … ▶375Love
F. Scott FitzgeraldThen wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! ✨ The Great… ▶331LoveSadness
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned;… ▶364Reading
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). The Great Gatsby, p.71, Oldcastle Books342ReadingSadness
F. Scott FitzgeraldTomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).331Thought
