Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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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...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

Never confuse activity with action

Never confuse activity with action

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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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

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

Action is character.

Action is character.

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

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...

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.