F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere."

"There was nothing I wanted to tell her."

"Ambition is an interesting thing."

"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."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"All the sad young men."

"The rich are different from you and me."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly at the distance."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"So it goes."

"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."

"The beautiful and damned."

"There's no such thing as a second act in American life."

"Tender is the night."

"The cruelest is the cruelest season of all."

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

"Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you the truth."

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me advice I've never forgotten."

"Enthusiasm is intoxication with a purpose."

"The natural state of the intellectual is a kind of unsatisfactory discontent."

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

"It's just that life is hard."

"Babylon revisited."

"Winter dreams."

"The Great Gatsby."

"I didn't want to do anything but take her hand and find out where she lived."