Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

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

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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