Source: The Beautiful and Damned
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“They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“How different it all was from what you'd planned.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.”
Source: Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories
“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: This Side of Paradise
Source: The Jazz Age: Essays
“He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.”
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”
Source: The Crack-up
“When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher
“I used to build dreams about you.”
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“The rich are different from us.”
Source: The Crack-up