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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical
where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations
and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
There is no such thing as a man willing to be honest that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- 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, The Crack-Up
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Prefer geniality to grammar.
- 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
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't write because you want to say something' you write because you've got something to say.
- 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.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The victor belongs to the spoils.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned, 1921
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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