F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
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"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes—so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me."Horace stopped quickly in front of her."Why do you want me to kiss you" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people"Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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