F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 K. Fitzgerald

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

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

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

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

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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