"The street was hot at three and hotter still at four, the April dust seeming to enmesh the sun and give it forth again as a world-old joke forever played on an eternity of afternoons. But at half past four a first layer of quiet fell and the shades lengthened under the awnings and heavy foliaged trees. In this heat nothing mattered. All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesScreenwriters from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
The Jelly-Bean
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done t…"
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does so…"
"There are no second acts in American lives."
"Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the fields a voice calling..."
"The shadow of a dove Falls on the cote, the trees are filled with wings; And down the valley through the crying trees…"
"I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind a…"
"He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, h…"
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."
"People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician o…"