F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
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"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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."
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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
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
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