1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made....

Я вообще живу не раздумывая, поэтому мне всегда весело.Люсиль - Джордан Бейкер"Великий Гэтсби

Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class when he was alone, with the cheapest wine, and good care of his clothes, and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no futuro orgástico que, ano após ano, recua diante dos nossos olhos. Nessa altura iludiu-nos, mas não importa - amanhã correremos mais depressa, esticaremos mais os braços... E uma bela manhã...

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

In fact, I once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you'll excuse the presumption.