Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

A mile from the sea, where pines give way to dusty poplars, is an isolated railroad stop, whence one June morning in 1925 a victoria brought a woman and her daughter down to Gausse's Hotel. The mother's face was of a fading prettiness that

Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? -Please do. It's too light in here.

now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.

Astfel alunecam spre moarte,prin amurgul din care caldura zilei pierea treptat.

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of——' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly.

But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.

His voice promised that he would take care of her, and that a little later he would open up whole new worlds for her, unroll an endless succession of magnificent possibilities.

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

Apoi o saruta.La atingerea buzelor lui,Daisy se deschise ca o floare,iar intruchiparea se desavarsi.

Yet her tired heart, beating until it shook her breasts, made her sure that there was still life in her, desperately shaken, threatened…

There was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking—and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us?

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.

Silence! I am about to unburden myself of many memorable remarks reserved for the darkness of such earths and the brilliance of such skies.

Svatko o sebi misli da posjeduje barem jednu od osnovnih ljudskih vrlina, a ovo je moja: ubrajam se me?u malo poštenih ljudi koje sam upoznao u životu.

I'm not fit to touch her, he cried aloud to the four walls. I'm not fit to touch her little hand. Nevertheless, he went out to look for her.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.

Bizler ak?nt?ya kar?? gemilerimizi ilerletmeye çal???rken, hiç durmadan geçmiÅŸe çekiliyorduk asl?nda.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

No one cares about us but ourselves, Anthony," she said one day. "It'd be ridiculous for me to go about pretending I felt any obligations toward the world, and as for worrying what people think about me, I simply don't, that's all.

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.

Back at two o'clock in the Roi George corridor the beauty of Nicole had been the beauty of Rosemary as the beauty of Leonardo's girl was to that of the girl of an illustrator. Dick moved on through the rain, demoniac and frightened, the passions of many men inside him and nothing simple that he could see.