Best F. Scott Fitzgerald Words
- This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. Adult
- The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility Always Curious
- To most women art is a form of scandal. Art
- The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers… Adolescent
- Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering Actual
- Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you Either Something
- When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… Able
- Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Book
- Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. Adolescence
- Forgotten is forgiven. Forgiven
- 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… Ability
- First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Addiction
- Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. Hero
- Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. Ability
- Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. All
- 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… Cheat
- Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. Adversity
- In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. Always Three
- I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Hope
- 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… Conception
- 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… Civilize
- A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. Cards
- Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. Ability
- At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. Belief
- It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. Met
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