F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There are no second acts in American lives.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“You can't repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”