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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
US novelist
1896 - 1940
The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Love of the Last Tycoon
US novelist
1896 - 1940
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
US novelist
1896 - 1940
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life.
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Crack-Up" (1936)
US novelist
1896 - 1940
He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
US novelist
1896 - 1940

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