F. Scott Fitzgerald

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

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.

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

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Love of the Last Tycoon
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

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 Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald