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
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My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather. -
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. -
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. -
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
- 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.
- Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.