Memorable Quotes and quotations from F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald US novelist (1896 - 1940)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. 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - Optimism is the content of small men in high places. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7 - There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Love of the Last Tycoon - What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night - Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. F. Scott Fitzgerald - - Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. |
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