F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"

"I feel like a man divided."

"That's the difference between resurrection and death."

"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."

"The man who could dominate others could dominate his own smaller self."

"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement."

"The very rich are different from ordinary men and women."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection."

"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."

"An engaged woman, a really engaged woman, always has something better to do."

"She was a golden girl."

"So she lived in the valley of the shadow of ambition."

"The way to write is to write what is in your heart."

"Drinking was a poison and a cure."

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

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

"Forget all national symbols and business men."

"The formula for saving a generation was a formula for saving himself."

"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."

"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice."

"The exquisite consonance of a great room."

"The face is a stupid place to paint."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"In any case, it is easy to be clever if you do not have to be too clever."

"Women are not wholly good or bad any more than men are."

"It is in the thirties that we want friends."

"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view."

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

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer."