Fitzgerald Quotes
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“There鈥檚 a loneliness that only exists in one鈥檚 mind. The loneliest moment in someone鈥檚 life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”
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“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”
― Gatsby Girls
― Gatsby Girls

“Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.
'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...”
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...”
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

“I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I鈥檓 his ideal.”
― Winter Dreams
― Winter Dreams

“There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.”
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“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?"
"Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”
― Camino Island
"Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”
― Camino Island

“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?”
― Because She Can
― Because She Can

“Won鈥檛 we be quite the pair? You with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.”
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“I'm romantic - a sentimental person thinks things will last - a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as is he were related to one thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament" - it was an extraordinary gift of hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”
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“Sembra che per sfuggire al dolore dobbiamo ripercorrere gli stessi passi che ci hanno portati l矛.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night

“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.”
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes, when he was particularly loquacious, she went to sleep in his arms, but he loved that Rosalind鈥攁ll Rosalinds鈥攁s he had never in the world loved any one else. Intangibly fleeting, unrememberable hours.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Nicole Diver, la schiena bruna ornata di perle, sfogliava un libro di ricette in cerca del pollo alla Maryland. Poteva avere ventiquattro anni, ipotizz貌 Rosemary 鈥� il viso era di una bellezza convenzionale, ma dava l'impressione di essere stato inizialmente concepito su scala eroica, con una struttura e i lineamenti marcati, come se i tratti e la vivacit脿 della fronte e dell'incarnato, che associamo al temperamento e al carattere, fossero stati scolpiti con un'intenzione rodinesca e in un secondo momento fossero stati cesellati in direzione della bellezza, con il rischio che la bench茅 minima imprecisione ne compromettesse in modo irreparabile la forza e la qualit脿.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night

“As Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald, describing the act of letter-writing: 鈥淪uch a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you鈥檝e done something”
― At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
― At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

“The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first sex, then dancing then music. It is associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big citiesbehind the lines of a war.”
― Echoes of the Jazz Age: Short Story
― Echoes of the Jazz Age: Short Story

“Once the sounds of birds were reassuring. Once, it was a sign of danger if the birds had gone quiet. Now, the sounds of birds would be foreign, even wrong. Now, it was always quiet because there was always danger.”
― A Happy Bureaucracy
― A Happy Bureaucracy

“She regarded Arthur with the corners of her eyes as she drove, noting that he was wearing a seatbelt, even though there was no more law requiring him to do so. There was no seatbelt around her, and in truth if she was the van's only occupant there wouldn't be any pants either.”
― A Happy Bureaucracy
― A Happy Bureaucracy

“For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.”
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