Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

You've a place in my heart no one else ever could have, but tied down here I'd get restless. I'd feel I was—wastin' myself. There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side you love; an' there's a sort of energy—the feelin' that makes me do wild things. That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere, that'll last when I'm not beautiful any more." She

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested - interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

I could settle down if women were different, he said. If I didn't understand so much about them, if women didn't spoil you for other women, if they had only a little pride. If I could go to sleep for a while and wake up into a home that was really mine - why, that's what I'm made for, Paula, that's what women have seen in me and liked in me. It's only that I can't get through the preliminaries any more.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. I

Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

Os americanos], conquanto se mostrem dispostos, e até ansiosos, por ser escravos, sempre se recusaram, obstinadamente, a ser camponeses.

That's my middle west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lames and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired

There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to hm, entirely justified.

I love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial—but knows that it isn't. 3.

the drought in the marrow of his bones. He

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself. .

It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness which I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I will ever find again.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

Never heard of them [Nick's colleagues], he remarked decisively. This annoyed me.

He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.