F. Scott Fitzgerald

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #gatsby #lies #love #moonlight

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#new-york-city

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#relax #smoking #business

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #monogamy #sweet #want #beauty

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contradiction #humor #humor

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #fitzgerald #happiness #rose #roses

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

I want to do everything in the world with you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love

Human sympathy has its limits. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#f-scott-fitzgerald #quotes-to-define-my-life #the-great-gatsby #life

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#forgiveness