The Notebooks of Scott Fitzgerald

228 Colors at Oregon: gold, dark green, little white buoys on safety rope, background white figures, grey underpinnings—all seen thru foliage dark and light green.

275 Yellow and lavender filled her eyes, yellow for the sun through yellow shades and lavender for the quilt, swollen as a cloud and drifting in soft billows over the bed. Suddenly she remembered her appointment and uncovering her arms she squirmed into a violet negligee, flipped back her hair with a circular movement of her head and melted into the color of the room.

Every day I wait I’ll have less men to choose from—and if I wait till I fall in love again I’ll just wait forever.”

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

The man must be before or after an event to be interested in women; that is, if he is a man and not a weakwad.

Throw blood from one side of the head to another (Cuban)

face moving first

the qualities that make him attractive and leave him out. I cling to my own inards. When I like women I want to own them, to dominate them, to have them admire me.

When I like men I want to be like them—I want to lose the outer qualities that give me my individuality and be like them. I don’t want the man I want to absorb into myself all

A famous writer fakes his own death but things make him come back. Or else he can’t.