First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

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

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

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...

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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...

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.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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...

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...

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...

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered...

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered...

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...

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he...

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he...

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age