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“Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter…
And the rain and over the fields a voice calling…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

“You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to Frances Turnbull (9 November 1938), in A Life in Letters (1994), p. 368
Quoted, Letters

“Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Jelly-Bean"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

“But the book lived always, so beautifully had it been written, and so astounding the quality of imagination with which these men of mind and genius had endowed it. They had neglected to give it a name, but after they were dead it became known as the Bible.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

“Finally, let us take care that the book possesses all the virtues of style, so that it may last forever as a witness to our profound scepticism and our universal irony.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

“So the men did, and they died.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Dr. Diver speaking of Abe North.
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)