F. Scott Fitzgerald

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#around #bores #feet #fools #genius

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dream #everybody #form #madness #youth

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#except #hasn #i #life #love

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#heart #i #inside #like #me

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conceive #data #life #minutes #months

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#difference #intelligence #me #men #occurred

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#afternoon #day #next #ourselves #thirty

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#clubs #country #does #live #rule

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had