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.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Action is character.

Action is character.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

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...

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or...

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or...

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth...

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth...

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.

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...

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old...

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of...

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of...