Posts tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self discovery, etcetera, etc...
The closing lines of The Great Gatsby handwritten by F. Scott Fitzgerald under a portrait of him drawn by Robert Kastor.
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…. And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
(via sleepingsunflowers)
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 in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
(Source: crmerry, via peasandqueues)
