
List of quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Love of the Last Tycoon
"He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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." by F. Scott Fitzgerald