Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee...

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy...

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy...

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the...

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the...

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...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

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...

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

Never confuse activity with action

Never confuse activity with action

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...

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty...

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty...

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...