What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Future, Uncertainty, Time, Existential Question, Life Planning
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“The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change, Character, Morality, Transformation, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Change, Character, Morality, Transformation, Observation“The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atmosphere, Twilight, Urban Life, Childhood, Sensory Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald Atmosphere, Twilight, Urban Life, Childhood, Sensory Description“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature, Universality, Belonging, Human Condition, Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literature, Universality, Belonging, Human Condition, Connection“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atmosphere, Evening, Amusement Park, Description, Imagery
F. Scott Fitzgerald Atmosphere, Evening, Amusement Park, Description, Imagery“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past, Memory, Disappointment, Nostalgia, Time
F. Scott Fitzgerald Past, Memory, Disappointment, Nostalgia, Time“Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travel, Disillusionment, Dreams, Change, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel, Disillusionment, Dreams, Change, Perception“The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sensuality, Nature, Immersion, Pleasure, Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald Sensuality, Nature, Immersion, Pleasure, Description“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationships, Change, Effort, Love, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Relationships, Change, Effort, Love, Human Nature“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“Forgotten is forgiven.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness, Memory, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness, Memory, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perspective, Change, Adaptation, Disillusionment, Growth
F. Scott Fitzgerald Perspective, Change, Adaptation, Disillusionment, Growth“Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Generational Critique, Resilience, Life Challenges, Decision-making, Social Commentary
F. Scott Fitzgerald Generational Critique, Resilience, Life Challenges, Decision-making, Social Commentary“So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Desperation, Intensity, Relationships, Existence
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Desperation, Intensity, Relationships, Existence“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romance, Sentiment, Hope, Pessimism, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Romance, Sentiment, Hope, Pessimism, Human Nature“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Authenticity, Relationships, Self-protection, Human Nature, Emotion
F. Scott Fitzgerald Authenticity, Relationships, Self-protection, Human Nature, Emotion“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Realization, Perception, Character Development, Aspiration
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Realization, Perception, Character Development, Aspiration“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Culture, Social Class, Independence, National Character, Historical Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald American Culture, Social Class, Independence, National Character, Historical Observation“I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regional Identity, Adaptation, Cultural Differences, Self-reflection, American Culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald Regional Identity, Adaptation, Cultural Differences, Self-reflection, American Culture