F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
(topic: fame)
- 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.
(topic: family)
- Forgotten is forgiven.
(topic: forgiveness)
- It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
(topic: friendship)
- Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
(topic: genius)
- Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
(topic: gossip)
- Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
(topic: perseverance)
- 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.
(topic: weekend)
- An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school-masters of ever afterward.
(topic: writing)
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