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“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
Source: Gatsby Girls

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Gatsby Girls

“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Gatsby Girls

“Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We all must try to be good.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night