"The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small repti...
It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes
"Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at ...
"No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me."Horace stopped quickly in front of her."Why do you want me to ki...
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged i...
"I wish I had done everything on earth with you
"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, an...
"Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.
"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 ...
"In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, d...
"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he ...
"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...
"A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns ...
"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 ...