The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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.
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More Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
