28540. “. . . Isn’t it funny and lonely being together, Dick. No place to go except close.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night December 11, 2020
28539. “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” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28538. “A calm virility and a dreamy humour, marked contrasts to her level-headedness–into these moods she slipped sometimes as a refuge. She could do the most prosy things (though she was wise enough never to stultify herself with such ‘household arts’ as knitting or embroidery), yet immediately afterward pick up a book and let her imagination rove as a formless cloud with the wind.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise December 11, 2020
28537. “Full of vaunting pride, the New Yorker had climbed here, and seen with dismay what he had never suspected. That the city was not the endless sucession of canyons that he had supposed, but that it had limits, fading out into the country on all sides into an expanse of green and blue. That alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining ediface that he had reared in his mind came crashing down. That was the gift of Alfred Smith to the citizens of New York.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald December 11, 2020
28536. “It was an extraordinary gift for 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” ― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28535. “She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise December 11, 2020
28534. “Well, you never know exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, December 11, 2020
28533. “I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating feverish warmth because it couldn’t be over-dreamed.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28532. “It’s the whole thing,’ he asserted. ‘It’s the one dividing line between good and evil. I’ve never met a man who led a rotten life and didn’t have a weak will.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise December 11, 2020
28531. “She was beautiful, but not like the girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, She wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She was beautiful.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald December 11, 2020
28530. “Her eyes met Rosemary’s but did not see her.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night December 11, 2020
28529. “This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28528. “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28527. “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28526. “His apprehension of splendor was fading so that presently the luxury of eternal mourning would depart.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon December 11, 2020
28525. “I was within and without, simul- taneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible vari- ety of life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald December 11, 2020
28524. “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28523. “Amory was now eighteen years old, just under six feet tall and exceptionally, but not conventionally, handsome.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise December 11, 2020
28522. “one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28521. “Snobbishness is, after all, merely good breeding grown dictatorial; so Samuel’s code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out in a certain gutter.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories December 11, 2020
28520. “This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28519. “You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28518. “For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28517. “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth–but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget…” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28515. “And it occurred to me that there was no profound difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well” ― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gastby December 11, 2020
28514. “I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” ― F Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) December 11, 2020
28513. “The enormity of his decision frightened him. He was a favorite caddy, and the thirty dollars he earned through the summer were not to be made elsewhere around the lake. But he had received a strong emotional shock, and his perturbation required a violent and immediate outlet.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald December 11, 2020
28512. “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby December 11, 2020
28511. “If I knew words enough I could write you the longest love-letter in the world—and never get tired.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories December 11, 2020
28510. “Already he felt her absence from these skies: on the beach he could only remember the sun-torn flesh of her shoulder; at Tarmes he crushed out her footprints as he crossed the garden; and now the orchestra launching into the Nice Carnival Song, an echo of last year’s vanished gaieties, started the little dance that went on all about her. In a hundred hours she had come to possess all the world’s dark magic; the blinding belladonna, the caffein converting physical into nervous energy, the mandragora that imposes harmony.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald December 11, 2020