F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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

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