“ Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dre… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - peop… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake.Maybe it was, said WylieIt's poor technique.I'd all for it, said Wylie. I'm vain as a woman. If anybody… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single mo… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. F. Scott Fitzgerald
