F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald