More from F. Scott Fitzgerald
- All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
- At the worst I accepted Hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house.
- Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
- 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.
- She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
- Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06