F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

“The rich are different from you and me.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

“I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

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

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

“All the bright precious things fade so fast... and they don't come back.”

“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.”

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”

“For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.”

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

“Action is character.”

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”