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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Girl, Dozen
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.882, e-artnow

All things come to him who mates.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Patience, Waiting, Mates

Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yellow, Giving, Gold

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eight, Two, Twenties
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.473, e-artnow

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suffering, Despair, Cures
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.3101, e-artnow

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy, Fighting, Thoughtful
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.3187, e-artnow

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frustrating, Surprising
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.176, New Directions Publishing

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dumb, Alive, Knows
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.26, Oldcastle Books

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selfish, People, Great Love
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.236, e-artnow

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Food, Cooking, Hot
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.236, e-artnow

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Deep Love, Imagination
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.269, e-artnow

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morning, Lovely, Ordinary

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Style, Excellence, Certain
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.335, e-artnow

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night, Wonderful, So Sad
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.67, Xist Publishing

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arrows, People, Enemy
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Liars, Men, Vanity
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loss, Color, Giving
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buttons, Cuffs
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.100, Broadview Press

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blood, Punishment, Ankles
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.455, e-artnow

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past, Strange, Unbelievable
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.270, e-artnow

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
College, Men, Yale
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

Her voice is full of money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Money, Voice
The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Air, Unhappy, Together
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frightened, Dies, Will To Live
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.372, e-artnow

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her Beauty, Rooms, Rolling
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.431, e-artnow

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