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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Pain, Memories
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.222, Xist Publishing

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Library, Bricks
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.33, e-artnow

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past, Ideas, Gone
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.88, Oxford University Press

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Believe, Reassurance, Great Gatsby Book
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Light, Cities, Limits
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wise, Art, Eye
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.184, Xist Publishing

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past, Men, House
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.657, e-artnow

Murder your darlings.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Murder, Darling

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Heart, Autumn
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.383, Book House

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Constant, Riot
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.533, e-artnow

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confused, Fall, Said Life
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sports, Morning, Golf
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1998). “The Great Gatsby”, p.42, OUP Oxford

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading, Leaving, Lost
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.639, Simon and Schuster

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wine, Gallantry
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.390, e-artnow

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Old Friends, New Friendship, Together
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.18, Dramatists Play Service Inc

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Successful, Earthquakes, Personality
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lying, Years, Honor
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mean, Intense, Ends
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.130, Oxford University Press

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Long, World
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hands, Decision, Cry
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Atlântico Press

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Ideas, Long
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.59, e-artnow

I was too absorbed to be responsive

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.525, e-artnow

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Instruments, Circumstances, Mere
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.207, VM eBooks

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Glimpse, Great Gatsby Nick
The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moving, Hands, Years
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.2019, e-artnow

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