For Students
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotes
- Clothing
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.: The Crack-Up
- Committees
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.: The Crack-Up
- Despair
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- Heroism
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.: The Crack-Up
- Intelligence and Intellectuals
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.: The Crack-Up
- Maturity
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.: The Crack-Up
- Poetry and Poets
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician . . . —or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
- The Past
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.: The Great Gatsby
- Writing and Writers
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.: The Crack-Up
- Youth
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.