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She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Games, Satisfaction, Mischief
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.543, e-artnow

It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Laughter, Sunshine
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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
Years, Two, Drawing
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lasts, Annihilation, Solitary

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Heart, Games
"This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, Looks, Great Gatsby Important
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.537, e-artnow

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, Twilight, Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.40, e-artnow

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Party, Missing, Nerves
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1960). “Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
People, Drug, Too Late
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Cutting, Epic

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summer, New York, Fall
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cold, Leaving Me, Feels
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.910, e-artnow

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking, Forever, Great Gatsby Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.24, F. Scott Fitzgerald

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running, Fashion, Drinking
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.127, New Directions Publishing

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tired, Men, 21st Birthday

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Taken, Eye, Two
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sorry, Home, People
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “This Side of Paradise”, p.13, Pelekanos Books

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Football, Games

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Judgement, Rotten, Said
"The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Giving, Different, Littles
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.520, e-artnow

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, People, Trying
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.834, e-artnow

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Childhood, Growth
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Block, Book, Reading

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness, Strong, Pain
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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