“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
Communication
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
GreatAll Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
Morning“Forgotten is forgiven.”
Forgiveness“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
Great“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.”
Sad“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
God“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
Intelligence“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”
Respect“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
Best“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.”
Age“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
Art“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”
Business“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
Men“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.”
Family“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
Poetry“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.”
Intelligence“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
Women“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
Great“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.”
Power“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
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