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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Heart, Trying
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York, World
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl, Responsibility, Sunshine
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.244, e-artnow

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flower, Lips, Great Gatsby Love
The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Faces, Emotion, Objects
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.97, Atlântico Press

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thirty, Decades
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.106, Atlântico Press

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past, Great Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.83, Oldcastle Books

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Song, Book, Voice
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.93, Atlântico Press

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simplicity, Saws, Awful
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.125, Broadview Press

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Persons, Just One
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.357, e-artnow

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Years, Voice, Quality
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rain, Thinking, Grieving
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.69, Atlântico Press

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Heart, People
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.45, e-artnow

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Littles, Tradition, Enough
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.204, VM eBooks

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wife, Making Love, Great Gatsby 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.81, e-artnow

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

F. Scott Fitzgerald
World, April, Kind
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Light, Long
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sweet, Kissing, Boys
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Garden, Insulting, Hollywood
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.646, e-artnow

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Curves, Incidents
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.163, e-artnow

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Given, Irrational
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jobs, Writing, Creating

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love You
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.237, e-artnow

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Horse, Laughter, Moving

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Thinking, Leaving
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.140, e-artnow

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