The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. F Scott Fitzgerald
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck. F Scott Fitzgerald
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. F Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F Scott Fitzgerald
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. F Scott Fitzgerald
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one…. Vitality never ‘takes’. You have it or you haven’t it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. F Scott Fitzgerald
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. F Scott Fitzgerald
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back inside the shelter. F Scott Fitzgerald
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. F Scott Fitzgerald
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. F Scott Fitzgerald