Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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

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

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

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

- 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

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