F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I wish I had done everything on earth with you"
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"After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did."She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good time."He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression."I feel far away from her," he said. "It's hard to make her understand."You mean about the dance"The dance" He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. "Old sport, the dance is unimportant."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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
"“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.”"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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