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“And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed….”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Personality

“That Kitty was capable of any deep grief was unbelievable. He had gradually grown to think of her as something unapproachable and callous. She would get a divorce, of course, and eventually she would marry again. He began to consider this. Whom would she marry? He laughed bitterly, stopped; a picture flashed before him — of Kitty's arms around some man whose face he could not see, of Kitty's lips pressed close to other lips in what was surely: passion.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Thinking , Passion

“There is a sort of waking nightmare that sets in sometimes when one has missed a sleep or two, a feeling that comes with extreme fatigue and a new sun, that the quality of the life around has changed. It is a fully articulate conviction that somehow the existence one is then leading is a branch shoot of life and is related to life only as a moving picture or a mirror — that the people, and streets, and houses are only projections from a very dim and chaotic past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Life , People , Feeling , Sleep

“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notebook E, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

Life , Youth , World , Fools

“The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They’ve seized an idea.”
“What is it?”
“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Men , Truth , Idea

“It was no affair for the watch: Satan was at large tonight and Satan seemed to be he who appeared dimly in front, heel over gate, knee over fence. Moreover, the adversary was obviously travelling near home or at least in that section of London consecrated to his coarser whims, for the street narrowed like a road in a picture and the houses bent over further and further, cooping in natural ambushes suitable for murder and its histrionic sister, sudden death.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Tarquin of Cheapside"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Death , Travel , Home , Nature

“He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all — "”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

“There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book May Day

"May Day"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

War , People , Flowers

“The shadow of a dove
Falls on the cote, the trees are filled with wings;
And down the valley through the crying trees
The body of the darker storm flies; brings
With its new air the breath of sunken seas
And slender tenuous thunder...
But I wait...
Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain —
Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate,
Happier winds that pile her hair;
Again
They tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air
Upon me, winds that I know, and storm.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Fate , Tear , Tree , Waiting

“In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 7

Life

“I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Responding to a suggestion that he return to Hollywood to work on a script of Tender is the Night in a letter to his agent (10 January 1935)
Quoted, Letters

Hate , Sincerity

“Curiously enough he found in senior year that he had acquired a position in his class. He learned that he was looked upon as a rather romantic figure, a scholar, a recluse, a tower of erudition. This amused him but secretly pleased him — he began going out, at first a little and then a great deal.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

Learning

“One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer "The Offshore Pirate." But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the sort of thing you'll like.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

On "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Personality

“They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“Those were the days of "Florodora" and of sextets, of pinched-in waists and blown-out sleeves, of almost bustles and absolute ballet skirts, but here, without doubt, disguised as she might be by the unaccustomed stiffness and old fashion of her costume, was a butterfly of butterflies. Here was the gayety of the period — the soft wine of eyes, the songs that flurried hearts, the toasts and tie bouquets, the dances and the dinners. Here was a Venus of the hansom, cab, the Gibson girl in her glorious prime. Here was…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Girl , Fashion , Wine , Heart

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon, "Hollywood, ETC.," ed. Edmund Wilson (1941)
Quoted

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self-respect. And it's these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. But of course the real reason, Isabelle, is that I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. You’re still a Catholic, but Zelda’s the only God I have left now.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to Isabelle Amorous (February 1920)
Quoted, Letters

Love , God , World , Courage

“John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades — a small town on the Mississippi River — for several generations.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Family

“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to Maxwell Perkins, Villa Marie à Valescure, Saint-Raphaël, France, c. 10 October 1924, as quoted in A Life in Letters https://books.google.com/books?id=3DGy0rdeLrsC&pg=PA82&dq=%22It+takes+a+genius+to+whine+appealingly.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC3b6sqp3TAhUm0oMKHXUBAXUQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=%22It%20takes%20a%20genius%20to%20whine%20appealingly.%22&f=false (1963), edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman
Quoted, Letters

“He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

World , Feeling , Drink , Time