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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Light, Years, Handsome
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travel, Care

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grief, Steps, Seems
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.440, e-artnow

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relax, Wish, Want
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.6, Xist Publishing

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fire, Poetry, Poetry Is
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.750, Simon and Schuster

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Children, Believe
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.996, Simon and Schuster

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Wall, Passive
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.358, e-artnow

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Clouds, Looks, Moments
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.60, e-artnow

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful, Mercy
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.277, e-artnow

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simple, People, 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.537, e-artnow

that voice was a deathless song.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Song, Voice, Deathless
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Broadview Press

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hurt, Vanity, Rose
"The Beautiful and Damned".

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lightning, Strikes
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Men, Beats
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.142, Xist Publishing

Character is plot, plot is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Character, Plot

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night, Justice, Worry

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reality, Rocks, Wings
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.59, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mirrors, Two, Voice
"The Beautiful and Damned".

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fun, Simple, Thinking
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.287, e-artnow

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self, Brave, Illusion
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.365, e-artnow

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Brain, May
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.298, e-artnow

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
God, Thank God
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.192, New Directions Publishing

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful, Great Gatsby American Dream, Shirts
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Oldcastle Books

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Children, Rich, Great Gatsby Book
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

Kiss me now, love me now.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Kiss Me
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.366, e-artnow

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