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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Powerful, Opiates, Charm

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Care, Drink, Champagne
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.34, e-artnow

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Believe, Months, Youth
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.412, e-artnow

he 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 in.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wise, Thinking, Brave
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memories, Struggle, Ambition
"The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ocean, Enormous Quantities, Blue
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.162, e-artnow

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dog, Cat, Imagination

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, Lovely, Twenties
"Early Success" (1937)

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Light, Sun, Earth
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.26, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Real, Character, Sometimes

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Sandwiches, Bread
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Beautiful And Damned”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Father, Years, Advice
Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Tired, World
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Individuality, Hollywood, Paradox

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.607, e-artnow

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Strong, Personality, Conversation

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Distance, Struggle, Simple
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.169, e-artnow

Everything that begins, begins with blood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blood

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Song, Thinking, Hands
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morning, Real, Dark
"Handle with Care" (1936)

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Revelations, Intimate
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sorry, Half, Great Gatsby Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.174, Broadview Press

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Real, Air
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.162, Broadview Press

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confused, People, Confusion
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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