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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 9

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notebook E (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Closing lines
Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby