Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

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.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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