There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAnd as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
F. Scott FitzgeraldI hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: this-side-of-paradise
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
F. Scott FitzgeraldI want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
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