Quotations From F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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• 41.

  I talk with the authority of failure—Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook L," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Referring to his relationship with Ernest Hemingway.
  
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• 42.

  Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook G," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 43.

  Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies' toilet is invariably known as "Lover's Lane."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 44.

  All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 45.

  Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 46.

  No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 47.

  Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 48.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 49.

  You can stroke people with words.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook O," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 50.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Daisy Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby, ch. 7 (1925).