Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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 that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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