Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month tot walk to it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Strange is it not? That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Doorof darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the road, whichto discover, we must travel to.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
There are no second acts in American lives.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
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