fitzgerald Quotes

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“Forgotten is forgiven.”

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

“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”

“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”

“The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.”