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 FITZGERALDLife 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 FITZGERALDWell, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWhen I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDDon’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHere’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThere’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD