Fitzgerald 1945, p. 89: "My story price had gone from $30 to $1,000. That's a small price to what was paid later in the Boom, but what it sounded like to me couldn't be exaggerated." ———————— (1945), Wilson, Edmund (ed.), The Crack-Up, New York: New Directions, ISBN0-8112-0051-5 – via Internet Archive
Per Glenway Wescott's 1941 essay, collected in Kazin 1951, p. 119: "This Side of Paradise haunted the decade like a song, popular but perfect. It hung over an entire youth movement like a banner, somewhat discolored and windworn now; the wind has lapsed out of it. But a book which college boys really read is a rare thing, not to be dismissed idly or in a moment of severe sophistication." Kazin, Alfred, ed. (1951), F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work (1st ed.), New York City: World Publishing Company – via Internet Archive
Fitzgerald 1945, p. 15: "The generation which been adolescent during the confusion of the War, brusquely shouldered my contemporaries out of the way and danced into the limelight. This was the generation whose girls dramatized themselves as flappers, the generation that corrupted its elders and eventually overreached itself less through lack of morals than through lack of taste." ———————— (1945), Wilson, Edmund (ed.), The Crack-Up, New York: New Directions, ISBN0-8112-0051-5 – via Internet Archive
Gray 1946, p. 59: "They were the most conspicuous representatives of that 'lost generation,' fragments of which Gertrude Stein was forever stumbling upon in the byways of Paris." Gray, James (1946), On Second Thought, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press – via Internet Archive
Bruccoli 1981, p. 281: "...Fitzgerald's rebuttal to Gertrude Stein's 'lost generation' catch phrase that had achieved currency through Hemingway's use of it as an epigraph for The Sun Also Rises. Whereas Stein had identified the lost generation with the war veterans, Fitzgerald insisted that the lost generation was the prewar group and expressed confidence in 'the men of the war.'" Bruccoli, Matthew J. (1981), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1st ed.), New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN0-15-183242-0 – via Internet Archive
Per Glenway Wescott's 1941 essay, collected in Kazin 1951, p. 123: "Fitzgerald, the outstanding aggressor in the little warfare which divided our middle classes in the twenties—warfare of moral emancipation against moral conceit, flaming youth against old guard—definitely has let his side down. The champion is as dead as a doornail. Self-congratulatory moral persons may crow over him if they wish." Kazin, Alfred, ed. (1951), F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work (1st ed.), New York City: World Publishing Company – via Internet Archive
Fitzgerald 1921, pp. 166–167: Fitzgerald writes that early April of their final year has passed, "this was the last spring" at Princeton, and they have "raked the universe over the coals for four years". ———————— (1921) [1920], This Side of Paradise, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons – via Internet Archive
MacKie 1970, p. 20: Scott "was always trying to see how far he could go in arousing your feelings, but it was always with words... This was his first exposure to southern girls, who in turn had been exposed to less timid southern boys. The southern boys I knew, despite their verbal lethargy, at least understood what it was all about, and were more aggressive and emotionally satisfying. In 1917, I'm afraid, Scott just wasn't a very lively male animal." MacKie, Elizabeth Beckwith (1970), Bruccoli, Matthew J. (ed.), "My Friend Scott Fitzgerald", Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, pp. 16–27, retrieved September 30, 2022 – via Internet Archive
Turnbull 1962, p. 118: "Charles Scribner, Sr. had hesitated to put his imprint on This Side of Paradise, which struck him as frivolous. When he yielded to the enthusiasm of Maxwell Perkins, his most far-seeing editor, the monarchy of Scribners went over to the revolution." Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Turnbull 1962, p. 102: "Victory was sweet, though not as sweet as it would have been six months earlier before Zelda had rejected him. Fitzgerald couldn't recapture the thrill of their first love". Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Bruccoli 1981, p. 119: "Fitzgerald's appearance accelerated his elevation to celebrity status. His striking good looks combined with his youth and brilliance to complete the image of the novelist as a romantic figure. He photographed handsomely, especially in profile; and, though never a dandy, he dressed well in Brooks Brothers collegiate style. During the Twenties he often carried a cane, as did many young men. It was frequently remarked that Fitzgerald looked like a figure in a collar ad." Bruccoli, Matthew J. (1981), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1st ed.), New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN0-15-183242-0 – via Internet Archive
Stein 1933, p. 268: "Stein had been very much impressed by This Side of Paradise. She read it when it came out and before she knew any of the young American writers. She said of it that it was this book that really created for the public the new generation." Stein, Gertrude (1933), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Rahway, New Jersey: Quinn & Boden Company – via Internet Archive
Turnbull 1962, p. 321: "Fitzgerald had wanted to be buried with his family in the Catholic cemetery in Rockville, but since he had died a non-believer the Bishop raised objections, and he was buried in the Union Cemetery not far away." Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Bernstein 2009, p. 40: "Fitzgerald called Hobart Amory Hare (Hobey) Baker 'an ideal worthy of everything in my enthusiastic imagination' and named the protagonist of his novel This Side of Paradise Amory in his honor". Bernstein, Mark F. (2009), Princeton Football, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, ISBN978-0-7385-6584-2 – via Google Books
Fessenden 2005, p. 28: "Biographers describe Fay as a 'fin-de-siècle aesthete' of considerable appeal; 'a dandy, always heavily perfumed,' who introduced the teenaged Fitzgerald to Oscar Wilde and good wine". Fessenden, Tracy (2005), "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic Closet", U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (3), Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press: 19–40, JSTOR25154963
Turnbull 1962, p. 118: "Charles Scribner, Sr. had hesitated to put his imprint on This Side of Paradise, which struck him as frivolous. When he yielded to the enthusiasm of Maxwell Perkins, his most far-seeing editor, the monarchy of Scribners went over to the revolution." Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Turnbull 1962, p. 102: "Victory was sweet, though not as sweet as it would have been six months earlier before Zelda had rejected him. Fitzgerald couldn't recapture the thrill of their first love". Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Turnbull 1962, p. 321: "Fitzgerald had wanted to be buried with his family in the Catholic cemetery in Rockville, but since he had died a non-believer the Bishop raised objections, and he was buried in the Union Cemetery not far away." Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Coghlan 1925, p. 11: "This Side of Paradise focused the thought of the whole nation on the problems of 'flappers and parlor snakes' which it had known before simply as its daughters and sons. Some of the old-lady magazines are still debating these problems with tiresome gravity". Coghlan, Ralph (April 25, 1925), "F. Scott Fitzgerald", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Saturday ed.), St. Louis, Missouri, p. 11, retrieved December 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com
Rascoe 1920, p. 11: "As a picture of contemporary life and as an indication of codes of conduct obtaining among the American young, the novel is revelatory and valuable. It is a comment upon the times. It shows definitely that whatever the teachings of our elders, the Victorian checks, taboos, and reticences [sic] are no longer in force among the flappers, the debutantes, and the collegians of the present [Jazz Age] generation." Rascoe, Burton (April 3, 1920), "A Youth in the Saddle", The Chicago Tribune (Saturday ed.), Chicago, Illinois, p. 11, retrieved September 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com
Weaver 1922, p. 3: "But what the first book principally did was to introduce new material; it made this wild, keen, enthusiastic younger generation self-conscious; it encourage them to self-expression; to open revolt against the platitudes and pollyannalysis [sic] of precedent. In a literary way, Fitzgerald's influence is so great that it cannot be estimated." Weaver, John V. A. (March 4, 1922), "Better Than 'This Side of Paradise'", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Saturday ed.), Brooklyn, New York, p. 3, retrieved December 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com
