F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

American - Author | September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

HopeRomanticPersonWillAgainst

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

TimeIntelligenceMindIdeasTest

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

YouSayWantWriteSomething

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

SuccessGirlGreatCardsShePretty

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

IdeasBornFoolishConferenceIdea

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

FamilyEnoughRulesSkinGoMore

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

YouthGenerationWriteCriticsOwn

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

ConnectionTroubleDiscouragementOwn

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

MorningDaySoulNightDarkThree

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

LiveWorldCountryRuleBeaches

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

TimeManAnythingBigSitNo Time

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

LifeMy LifeDataThreeWriteTook

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