1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

He stayed there for a week , walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car.

... and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person," (P. 1)

but they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable again.

He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.

trying to tough what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that i had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment, a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what i had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

Akıntıya karşı giden sandallar gibi ilerliyoruz işte; durmaksızın geçmişe yol alan.

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.