"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Optimism is the content of small men in high places"
— F. Scott Fitzgerals (1896-1940)
“Nothing any good isn’t hard.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“My theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“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.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)