F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

happiness

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

hope

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

intelligence

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

intelligence

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

life

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

men

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

morning

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

movies

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

poetry

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

power

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