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I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, Want, Neglect
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.18, Xist Publishing

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Country, May, Want
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.2877, e-artnow

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Tattoo, Time
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Time, Youth
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Keys, Story Writers

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Ideas, Wish
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.294, Book House

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feet, People, Great Gatsby Book
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.28, e-artnow

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, World, Curious
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.2037, e-artnow

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Life, Tough Times, Proud
"Fictional character: Benjamin Button". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 2008.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Becoming
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature, Firsts, Consciousness
F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, e-artnow

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Profound, Promise, Littles
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flesh, Celibacy, Deeper
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.126, Xist Publishing

We all must try to be good.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trying, Be Good

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stars, Waiting Rooms, Years
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feelings, World, Pressure
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.94, e-artnow

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

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

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness, Past, Afternoon
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.353, e-artnow

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tired, World, Weight
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.686, e-artnow

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Tender Is The Night, Hard
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.476, e-artnow

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Known
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.1979, e-artnow

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Years, Afternoon, Next
The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cigarette
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.75, Sheba Blake Publishing

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memories, Ephemeral, Evening
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.805, e-artnow

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, Rooms, Lips
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.68, Pelekanos Books

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