Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
City, Perception, Beauty, Promise, Description
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“What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mystery, Music, Introspection, Future, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Mystery, Music, Introspection, Future, Human Nature“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Storytelling, Imagery, Color, Nature, Perspective
F. Scott Fitzgerald Storytelling, Imagery, Color, Nature, Perspective“I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gender Roles, Beauty, Intelligence, Social Commentary, Cynicism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Gender Roles, Beauty, Intelligence, Social Commentary, Cynicism“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory, Emotion, Human Nature, Past, Inner Life
F. Scott Fitzgerald Memory, Emotion, Human Nature, Past, Inner Life“Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Description, Atmosphere, Imagination, Nature, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Description, Atmosphere, Imagination, Nature, Observation“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Social Commentary, Infidelity, Cynicism, Class, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Social Commentary, Infidelity, Cynicism, Class, Relationships“Cut out all these exclamation jokes. An explanation point is like laughing at your own joke. I'm going to delete you from my contacts if you keep sending solely emoji texts. You're a grown-ass man.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing Advice, Humor, Communication, Maturity, Social Criticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing Advice, Humor, Communication, Maturity, Social Criticism“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gender, Influence, Relationships, Personality, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Gender, Influence, Relationships, Personality, Observation“Unloved women have no biographies – they have histories.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Women, Biography, History, Social Commentary
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Women, Biography, History, Social Commentary“All the bright precious things fade so fast.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Transience, Beauty, Time, Melancholy, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Transience, Beauty, Time, Melancholy, Observation“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry, Comparison, Art Appreciation, Keats, Literary Critique
F. Scott Fitzgerald Poetry, Comparison, Art Appreciation, Keats, Literary Critique“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Creativity, Quality, Inspiration, Literary Criticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing, Creativity, Quality, Inspiration, Literary Criticism“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perspective, Focus, Life Philosophy, Simplicity, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Perspective, Focus, Life Philosophy, Simplicity, Observation“There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring, Emotion, Atmosphere, Love, Contentment
F. Scott Fitzgerald Spring, Emotion, Atmosphere, Love, Contentment“Forgotten is forgiven.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness, Memory, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness, Memory, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance
F. Scott Fitzgerald Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance“But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life, by way of deep and intimate kindnesses they developed toward each other, by way of their laughing at the same absurdities and thinking the same things noble and the same things sad.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Relationships, Intimacy, Shared Experiences, Human Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Relationships, Intimacy, Shared Experiences, Human Connection“Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination, Fear, Human Nature, Creativity, Psychology
F. Scott Fitzgerald Imagination, Fear, Human Nature, Creativity, Psychology“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something- most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Curiosity, Deception, Human Nature, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Curiosity, Deception, Human Nature, Observation