Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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“After reading pages of testimony”: The New Yorker, December 4, 1926, p. 23.
“My mother was a good woman”: Kunstler, Hall–Mills Murder Case, p. 309.
“engaged in flagrantly sentimental relations”: A Life in Letters, p. 193.
Their generation had desired success: Zelda Fitzgerald, Collected Writings, pp. 408–9.
“I was in the insistent mood”: Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald, p. 168.
the dancing madness of the Middle Ages: ibid.
313–14 “wanted to have something for herself”: Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, p. 149.
“Great ladies, bourgeoises, adventuresses”: Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 498–99.
“she has given me the greatest joy that can exist”: Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, p. .
calmed only by morphine . . . attempted suicide: Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, p. 159.
high suicide rate in her family . . . history of mental illness: ibid, p. 19.
“It is somewhat difficult to teach”: A Life in Letters, p. 203.
But reality was melting away: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 83.
“exalted sophistries”: Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, p. 185.
“Those days when we came up”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 63.
“You were going crazy and calling it genius”: ibid, p. 65.
He was not the only one who had been thinking: ibid, pp. 67–69.
“You didn’t care”: ibid, p. 73.
“It is with me from the morning”: ibid, pp. 88–89.
losing her mind was monstrous: ibid, pp. 89–90.
“Without hope or youth or money”: ibid, pp. 96–97.
Zelda pictured him: ibid, p. 103.
“it was borrowed time”: “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” The Crack-Up, p. 21.
“École Fitzgerald”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 156.
318–19 “This mixture of fact and fiction”: ibid, p. 165.
“simply doesn’t exist. What one expresses”: Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, p. 255.
“the frail equipment of a sick mind”: ibid, p. 271.
“It seems to me you are making”: ibid, p. 273.
he wrote to Zelda’s doctor: PUL, Craig House Medical Records on Zelda Fitzgerald.
“got through a lot and have some way to go”: Turnbull letters, p. 506.
they could no longer “insist on a world”: ibid, p. 506.
“It’s good, good, good”: Malcolm Cowley, Introduction to revised Tender Is the Night: A Romance. “With the Author’s Final Revisions”; Preface by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.
“clever and brilliantly surfaced”: New York Times, April 15, 1934.
Fitzgerald responded that its intention was entirely different: PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.
“My great worry is that time is slipping by”: PUL, Craig House Medical Records on Zelda Fitzgerald.
“Don’t worry about critics”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 187.
“You and I have had wonderful times”: ibid, pp. 193–94.
“I wish I had been what I thought”: ibid, p. 222.
Hemingway . . . mocked him publicly: Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Esquire, August 1936.
“please lay off me in print”: A Life in Letters, p. 302.
“‘Some become brokers and threw’”: Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 120–26.
“Supposing Zelda at best”: Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, p. 319.
“gold and happy all the way home”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, pp. 212–13.
“I can see another generation”: Dreams of Youth, p. 446.
filling out a Guggenheim application: Donald M. Hensley. Burton Rascoe. New York: Twayne, 1970, p. 33.
“it is a magnificent and salutary thing”: Burton Rascoe Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
“That was darn nice of you”: ibid.
“Hollywood made a big fuss over us”: A Life in Letters, p. 330.
“I didn’t write four out of four best sellers”: Dreams of Youth, p. 580.
“Give Paramour my regards”: Invented Lives, p. 462.
“Smiling faintly at him”: The Last Tycoon. 1941. London: Penguin Books, 2001, p. 26.
“Oh, Zelda, this was to have been”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 249.
“I have come to feel somewhat neglected”: Dear Scott / Dear Max, pp. 250–52.
“My God I am a forgotten man”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 331.
“We have our tombstones to chisel”: ibid, p. 314.
How is Zelda, how is Zelda: Notebooks, p. 66.
“I left my capacity for hoping”: Notebooks, p. 204.
“I have a cottage on the Pacific”: Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 516–17.
“a novel à la Flaubert”: Life in Letters, p. 470.
“I wish now I’d never relaxed”: ibid, p. 451.
“expiring talent”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 313.
“fascinated me . . . just simply flows”: Life in Letters, p. 358.
“praised all out of proportion to its merits”: Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 483.
“a fantastic novel by the Czech Franz Kafka”: Life in Letters, p. 389.
“the best individual novel of the last five years”: ibid, p. 389.
“a delicate thing”: ibid, p. 431.
“We were the great believers”: In Zelda Fitzgerald, Nancy Milford quotes Fitzgerald as having written in the then-unpublished essay “My Generation”: “So you see that old libel that we were cynics and skeptics was nonsense from the beginning. On the contrary we were the great believers.” In fact, in that essay Fitzgerald writes only: “We were the great believers.” (See “My Generation,” in My Lost City: Personal Essays, p. 192.) The credit for the rest of the quotation, which has widely circulated, appears to belong to Milford.
“A lot of the past came into that party”: PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.
“I am deep in the novel”: A Life in Letters, pp. 467, 469.
“Twenty years ago ‘This Side of Paradise’”: ibid, p. 470.
“I am digging it out”: ibid.
“I think my novel is good”: ibid, pp. 471–72.
“Everything is my novel now”: ibid, p. 474.
“You have got two beautiful bad examples”: ibid, p. 475.
commenting . . . in the margins: Daniel, “The Last Thing He Wrote,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, October 20, 2004.
his last royalty statement: PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.
“Except for one bouquet”: Frank Scully, “Death of a Genius,” PUL, John Peale Bishop Papers.
“Scott should have been killed”: John O’Hara, Selected Letters, p. 279.
“I thought of him as imperishable, somehow”: Murphy, Letters from a Lost Generation, p. 259.
“With the skill of a reporter”: New York Times, December 23, 1940.
“was not a book for the ages”: New York Times, December 24, 1940.
“thought for so long that every day”: Gerald Murphy, Letters from the Lost Generation, p. 259.
“the cheapest funeral”: Baltimore Evening Sun, January 22, 1941, p. 11.
Scottie believed . . . books on a proscribed list: Eleanor Lanahan, Introduction to Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. xxv.
“a meaningless occasion”: Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald, p. 286.
“The poor son of a bitch”: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 62.
“The only reason I agreed”: Scottie by Eleanor Lanahan, p. 132.
“share again the happy possibility”: PU
L, Charles Scribner’s Sons Papers.
“Dearest: I am always grateful”: Bryer and Barks, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, p. 277.
“The Grecian Urn is unbearably beautiful”: A Life in Letters, p. 460.
“long before, not here but westward”: Bruccoli, ed., The Great Gatsby: A Facsimile of the Manuscript.
ENVOI : THE ORGASTIC FUTURE
“I always feel that Daddy was the key-note”: Quoted in Mellow, p. 490.
“lost in its platonic sources”: Zelda Fitzgerald, Collected Writings, pp. 440–41.
“In retrospect . . . it seems as if”: Quoted in Mellow, p. 488.
a study of carelessness: Burnam, “The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg,” p. 9.
“The idea that we’re the greatest”: Fitzgerald, Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 86.
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