No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their...

It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their...

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from...

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from...

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...

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

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

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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

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

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

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

There are no second acts in American lives.

There are no second acts in American lives.

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...

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound,...

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound,...