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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
World, Littles, Inspired
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.35, Atlântico Press

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Use, Great Things, If I Could
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Atlântico Press

For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regret, Heart, Moon
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Loneliness, Men
The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Country, Switzerland, Ends
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.2040, e-artnow

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stupid, Dumb, Healthy
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.220, e-artnow

He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, Air, Hands

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adjectives, Fit
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.54, Xist Publishing

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Courage, Selfish, Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dover Thrift Editions (2015). “The Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.129, Courier Dover Publications

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Home, Air, Blue
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Atlântico Press

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Running, Years

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, Novelists, Biographies
"The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play".

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suffering And Death, Essentials, Facts

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Academic Excellence, Discipline

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Drunk, Firsts
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Day, Noble, Firsts
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Men, Survival
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.437, e-artnow

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heaven, Temptation, Earth
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.1105, e-artnow

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Long, Peculiar, Excuse
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.31, e-artnow

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Giving Up, Long, Vitality
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.81, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Different, Wealth, Rich
"The Rich Boy" (1926)

It's a mining town in lotus land.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Land, Hollywood, Lotuses
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Children, Echoes, Parent

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, Gay, Men
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.13, e-artnow

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Years, People, Together
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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