and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word 'dissipate' -- to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. In the little hours of the night every move from place to place was an enormous human jump, an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion.
F. Scott FitzgeraldBut swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and even though you fracture it running against some man-made bridge, it healed and you sailed onward.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald to his wife Zelda.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThis was 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 FitzgeraldPossibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldhe stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.
F. Scott FitzgeraldBut his eyes, dimmed by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
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