F. Scott Fitzgerald

Drink

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

pain - pleasure

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure"

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

other peoples luck

"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck"

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

optimism

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places"

— F. Scott Fitzgerals (1896-1940)

good is hard

“Nothing any good isn’t hard.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

defeat

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Accident

“It takes two to make an accident.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Great books - bad books

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

honest people

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

complicated life

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

souls of different ages

“We all have souls of different ages”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

theory writing author youth generation critics schoolmaster

“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)

first-rate inteligence opposed ideas mind

“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)

intelligence two opposite idea function

“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)