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“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“It takes two to make an accident.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I'm a cynical idealist.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Tender is the Night

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Freshest Boy

Quoted, Short Stories
Source: The Freshest Boy

“It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.

“He knew now that he had always been a fool.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"O Russet Witch!"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
"O Russet Witch!"
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, Short Stories
Source: A Diamond As Big as The Ritz