Source: Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon
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“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Variant: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variant: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Variant: I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
Source: Tender Is the Night
“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“We all have souls of different ages”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Context: Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – 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.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Variant: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
Source: This Side of Paradise