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" 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. "

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

" 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. "

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

" All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. "

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

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

" Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. "

" 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

Week

Thought

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

" Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. "

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

" Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. "

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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Charm

Greatest

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

" Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. "

" My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. "

" Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. "

" There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. "

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your

Point

" You can stroke people with words. "

" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "

" 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

Rules

Family

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

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

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

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

" I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People

" 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. "