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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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.

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....

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a...

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a...

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...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

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

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around...

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around...

Action is character.

Action is character.

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...

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...

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.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

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...

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of...

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of...

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and...

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and...

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a...

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a...