F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

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

Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.