F. Scott Fitzgerald

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#comment #less #little #look #mississippi

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contempt #great #great art #great man #man

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#awhile #humming #keats #only #other

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#every #himself #least #suspects #virtues

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american women #bewildered #faces #maps #most

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#compensation #conviction #early #life #life is a

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#arrangement #never #notes #played #speech

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#find #hands #lucky #man #nothing

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#blind man #honest #like #man #see