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You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, People, Flattery
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Morning, Years
Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rain, Blessed, Fall
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rain, Voice, Ripple
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.109, Broadview Press

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laughter, Garden, Air
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

Life cracked like ice!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ice, Cracked
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.204, Cambridge University Press

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
And Love, Someday, Let Him Go
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.482, e-artnow

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Stars, Men
Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 3

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Forever, Mind
The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success, Tables, Authority
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Fool, Great Gatsby Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.141, Broadview Press

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Artist, Two, Viewpoints

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Adults, Unhappiness
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, Honest, Great Gatsby Important
The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Hero, Writing
The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Forever, Glimpse
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.480, e-artnow

My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, Tears, Rising
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.55, e-artnow

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Mind, Starting
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.100, Xist Publishing

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Hurt, Smart

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art, Hands, Entertainment

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspiring, Memories, Want
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.203, Xist Publishing

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Drinking, Recovery
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grief, College, Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness, Self, Expression
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.264, e-artnow

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth, Honesty, Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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