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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Writing, Ought
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.123, Book House

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Falling In Love, Devil, Growing
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.221, e-artnow

I want to do everything in the world with you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
World, Want

All I think of ever is that I love you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love You, Thinking
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1977). “The beautiful and damned”, MacMillan Publishing Company

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, People, Life Is
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Want, Way
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.102, Broadview Press

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Color, Heroic, Novel
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.596, e-artnow

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Education, College, Men

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Men, Dust
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.308, e-artnow

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work, Dirty, Manners
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art, Trying, Meaningless
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.573, e-artnow

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Drunk, Library
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.37, Atlântico Press

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness, Grief, Done
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.2151, e-artnow

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moving, Gold, Hats
The Great Gatsby epigraph (1925)

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Patience, Veteran, Judgment
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.9, e-artnow

"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stars, Distance, Home
"The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morning, Party, Missing
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.119, e-artnow

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Law, Broken, Insanity
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.773, Simon and Schuster

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Swimming, History
Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald (undated)

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dark, Imagination, Looks
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.199, e-artnow

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature, Spoil
The Beautiful and Damned epigraph (1922)

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stars, Two, Stage
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.287, e-artnow

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Desire, Great Gatsby Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, People, Feelings
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.838, e-artnow

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