Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Autor powinien napisać dla młodzieży swojego pokolenia, krytyków następnego i nauczyciela na zawsze.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Fitzgerald: The rich are different from us. Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Of himself and his wife: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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.

I think it's a pretty good rule not to tell what a thing is about until it's finished. If you do you always seem to lose some of it. It never quite belongs to you so much again.

Kiedy kupuje krawat, pyta, czy kolor puszcza od dżinu.

Gdy masz zamiar kogoś skrytykować - powiedział mi ojciec - pamiętaj, że nie wszyscy mieli w życiu takie szanse jak ty.

Of himself and his wife: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.

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

Advertising is a racket--its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (The Great Gatsby )

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