That's the whole burden of this novel – the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Illusion, Disillusionment, Truth, Beauty, Perception
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“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morality, Class, Upbringing, Human Nature, Social Commentary
F. Scott Fitzgerald Morality, Class, Upbringing, Human Nature, Social Commentary“The 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
Intelligence, Contradiction, Cognitive Ability, Mental Flexibility, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Intelligence, Contradiction, Cognitive Ability, Mental Flexibility, Wisdom“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rebellion, Social Norms, Decadence, Party, Provocation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Rebellion, Social Norms, Decadence, Party, Provocation“You see I think everything's terrible anyhow. Everybody thinks so – the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Sophisticated – God, I'm sophisticated!” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cynicism, World-weariness, Sophistication, Experience, Disillusionment
F. Scott Fitzgerald Cynicism, World-weariness, Sophistication, Experience, Disillusionment“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“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness, Urban Life, Observation, Empathy, Human Condition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Loneliness, Urban Life, Observation, Empathy, Human Condition“At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atmosphere, Social Gatherings, Youth, Melancholy, Sensory Experience
F. Scott Fitzgerald Atmosphere, Social Gatherings, Youth, Melancholy, Sensory Experience“I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self-realization, Exhaustion, Overextension, Reflection, Life Lessons
F. Scott Fitzgerald Self-realization, Exhaustion, Overextension, Reflection, Life Lessons“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination, Creativity, Limitation, Human Nature, Self-awareness
F. Scott Fitzgerald Imagination, Creativity, Limitation, Human Nature, Self-awareness“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth, Nostalgia, Experience, Desire, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth, Nostalgia, Experience, Desire, Human Nature“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Baseball, Critique, Intelligence, Sports, Cynicism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Baseball, Critique, Intelligence, Sports, Cynicism“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Imagination, Solitude, Life’s Mysteries, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Imagination, Solitude, Life’s Mysteries, Perception“The rich are different from us.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wealth, Class Divide, Social Commentary, Observation, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Wealth, Class Divide, Social Commentary, Observation, Human Nature“I hope you live a life you're proud of.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aspiration, Self-fulfillment, Values, Life Advice, Personal Growth
F. Scott Fitzgerald Aspiration, Self-fulfillment, Values, Life Advice, Personal Growth“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses – bound for dust – mortal.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Transience, Mortality, Appreciation, Human Condition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Transience, Mortality, Appreciation, Human Condition“As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature, Imagery, Beauty, Night, Poetic Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald Nature, Imagery, Beauty, Night, Poetic Description“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Connection, Perception, Intimacy, Human Interaction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Connection, Perception, Intimacy, Human Interaction“Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Vitality, Description, Human Nature, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Vitality, Description, Human Nature, Perception