American - Author | September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
PersonalitySuccessfulGestures
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
DefeatNeverSingleFinalConfuse
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
New Year'sYouDrinkFirstTake
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
InspirationalStartOverAbility
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
CommunicationMindGeniusAbility
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
GoodWaterWritingSwimmingBreath
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
HeroMeYouTragedyWriteShow
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.
LifeHappinessStruggleDefeatOut
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
YouthMadnessDreamChemicalForm
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
TiredBusyOnlyPursuingPursued
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
DayThirtyNextYearsAfternoon
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.
SadPastMemoryPresentYouFind
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