Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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