F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“Life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“Action is character.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.”
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
“Action is character.”
“There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.”