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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Green Lights, Arms
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Morning, Years
Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Fashion, Drinking
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.127, New Directions Publishing

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Wall, Passive
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.358, e-artnow

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

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Struggle, Nurse
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Tender is the Night”, p.32, HarperCollins

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Writing, Heaven
"This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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

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