F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forgiveness, Forgotten, 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 to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence, Time, Mind

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hero, Write, Show

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

New Year's, Drink, Takes

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Happiness, Struggle

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start, Ability, Shows

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Joke, Point, Laughing

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Power, Others, Else

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family, Enough, Won

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

Hide, Eighteen, Hills

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success, Great, Girl

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Single, Defeat, Final

There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

American, Lives, Second

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Romantic, Hope, Person

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Morning, Real, Night

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Communication, Mind, Put

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sad, Past, Find

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Before, Rude, Met

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Humanity

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Successful, Series, Gestures

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good, Writing, Water

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love, Friends, Won

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Drunk, Thought, Might

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Women, Known

Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Character, Action

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 24, 1896

Died: December 21, 1940

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