F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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.
I know myself, but that is all.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school-masters of ever afterward.
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
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.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
