121 Quotations by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1. A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

- 2. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

- 3. Action is character.

- 4. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad ...

- 5. After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth i ...

- 6. All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

- 7. America is a willingness of the heart.

- 8. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoo ...

- 9. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke

- 10. An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

- 11. Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the la ...

- 12. At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

- 13. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenn ...

- 14. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we h ...

- 15. Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to ...

- 16. Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

- 17. Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see th ...

- 18. Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discip ...

- 19. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

- 20. Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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