F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes & Quotations

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

» 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.

» 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.

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

» Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

» 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.

» Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

» 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.

» 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.

» An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

» The victor belongs to the spoils.

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