Sharing and celebrating the works of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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"She held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire- I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail." FSF, The Love of the Last Tycoon
"Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I’ll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction
"At twenty-three I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced. I hoped I was of the former." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last of the Belles
"Everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
"Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
"It’s been so perfect — you and I. So like a dream that I’d longed for and never thought I’d find." F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me you'd better go." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
"She didn’t know whether this was love or not but she knew with all her heart and soul that she wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever." F. Scott Fitzgerald, On Your Own
"Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires." F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Face what you’ve got to face and keep your chin where it belongs." F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter Scottie, 1940