F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don’t much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald