Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Forgotten is forgiven.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
