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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgotten is forgiven.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no second acts in American lives.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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