My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be...

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the...

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

Never confuse activity with action

Never confuse activity with action

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches...

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of...

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of...