01c. 1918 ADThe important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, ‘Fascist,’ ‘Liberal,’ ‘Trotskyist,’ and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
02c. 1918 ADCommunism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
03c. 1918 ADI don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
04c. 1918 ADHe was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
05c. 1918 ADI live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
06c. 1918 ADIt was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
07c. 1918 ADWhen I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
08c. 1918 ADYou don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
09c. 1918 ADAll she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dreamF. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
10c. 1918 ADAristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
11c. 1918 ADA breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
12c. 1918 ADHe watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the warm smell of the afternoon or the triumphant vividness of red. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful — then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards. The autumn air was between them, and the roofs and the blurred voices. Yet for a not altogether explained second, posing perversely in time, his emotion had been nearer to adoration than in the deepest kiss he had ever known.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
13c. 1918 ADHer eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
14c. 1918 ADArt isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
15c. 1918 ADI could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
16c. 1918 ADBefore I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
17c. 1918 ADThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
18c. 1918 ADThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
19c. 1918 ADThe history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
20c. 1918 ADMan in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
21c. 1918 ADTired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
22c. 1918 ADWriters aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
23c. 1918 ADCourage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
24c. 1918 ADMy generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
