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Oh, you want too much! she cried to Gatsby. I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past. She began to sob helplessly. I did love him once-but I loved you too. Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. You loved

"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. "You loved me too?" he repeated. "Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Lying, Eye
"The Great Gatsby".

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy, Enchanted, Great Gatsby Book
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fire, Musician, Drones
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.3286, e-artnow

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fading, Want, Dies
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grace, Generations, Virtue
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.3229, e-artnow

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depressing, Profound, Danger
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Responsibility, Sacrifice, Emotional
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.280, e-artnow

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Strong, Real, Heart

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.72, e-artnow

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Children, Eye
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “Flappers and Philosophers: American Literature”, VM eBooks

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art, Past, Bores You
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sadness, Eye, Mirrors
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.263, e-artnow

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Want, Wonderful, Knows
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.147, Xist Publishing

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Curiosity, Affection
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book, Writing, Great Book

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men, Air, Waiting
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.438, e-artnow

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Generations, Literature
Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Memories, Past
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Connections, Different, Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

Action is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “The Last Tycoon”, p.187, Penguin UK

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful, Memories, Heart
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

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atheist, Technology, Years
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.208, New Directions Publishing

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Care, Want, I Don't Care
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.152, Pelekanos Books

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Funny, New Year, Drinking
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Littles, Enough, Knows
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.357, e-artnow

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