Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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...

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....

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

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...

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...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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...

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race,...

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race,...

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...

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...

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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

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

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

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

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear,...

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear,...