Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: fitzgerald
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: character fitzgerald
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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: fitzgerald jazz-age-stories 1920s amecian-fiction
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...
Stichwörter: rich freedom fitzgerald poor the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz
A squalid phantasmagoria of breath
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: fitzgerald big-words side-of-paradise
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?
Bridie ClarkStichwörter: dreams editing fitzgerald careers hemingway wolfe
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.
Scott DonaldsonStichwörter: criticism fitzgerald
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Robert FitzgeraldStichwörter: fitzgerald iliad-beginning iliad
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’m his ideal.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: women america short-stories american-dream fitzgerald jazz-age-stories
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: writers trouble fitzgerald crack-up
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