Tales of the Jazz Age

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which only New York afternoons indulge. A breeze was crying down the streets, whisking along battered newspapers and pieces of things, and little lights were pricking out all the windows- it was so desolate that one was sorry for the tops of sky-scrapers lost up there in the dark green and gray heaven.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not so cowardly””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.””

— F. Scott Fitzgerald