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.”

“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”

“The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.”

“No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.”

“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”

“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.”

“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”

“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.”

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”

“Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”

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

“No decent career was ever founded on a public.”