“ That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing m… Sarah Vowell
“ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant,… F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
“ They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . An… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… y… Tom Conrad
“ Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. F. Scott Fitzgerald
