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“It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald