He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Year
- 1925
- Genres
- tragedy, Great American Novel
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel sold poorly in his lifetime; the green light and the 'boats against the current' closing line are now recited at graduations he never lived to see. That final sentence is carved on Fitzgerald's gravestone in Rockville, Maryland. Gatsby's 'old sport' -- used dozens of times in the novel -- was a verbal tic Fitzgerald borrowed from Max Gerlach, a mysterious Long Island acquaintance who signed letters with it.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
F. Scott Fitzgerald