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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Dream, Taken
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.792, e-artnow

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Littles, Way, Persons
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Baseball, Games, Idiot

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Sky, Personality
This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Years, Water, Decision
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.537, The Floating Press

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Twilight, Great Gatsby Gatsby, Cooling
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.556, e-artnow

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Hate, Russia
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.1707, e-artnow

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fashion, Book, Successful
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.586, e-artnow

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Father, Mean, Son
The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Bigs
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.167, Xist Publishing

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, Weekend, Rhythm Of Life

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Mind, Different
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.1070, e-artnow

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success, Destiny, Giving
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flower, Conscious, Prolonging
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.416, eBookIt.com

He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Real, Sky
"The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, People, Want
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.305, New Directions Publishing

The rich are different from us.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Money, Different, Rich
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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
Time, Children, Rich
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1980). “The Great Gatsby”

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Responsibility, Spoil, Sense Of Responsibility
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.32, VM eBooks

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Things In Life, Drunk
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.475, e-artnow

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confused, Self, Expression
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.597, e-artnow

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rejection, Stories, Hell

Most 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 disapproval.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Swings, People
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.359, e-artnow

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Mouths, Nancy
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.944, e-artnow

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Years, Waiting, Missing

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