No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic...

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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...

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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...

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

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

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of...

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of...

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.