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

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The victor belongs to the spoils.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Action is character.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can stroke people with words.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are no second acts in American lives.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

- 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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald