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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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott
Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.
F Scott
Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F Scott
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.
F Scott
Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F Scott
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
F Scott
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
F Scott
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. F. Bosworth
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
F. H. Bradley
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. J. Raymond
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. M. Young
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
F. P. Jones
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
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.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
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.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
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.
F. Scott Fitzgeral
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Fairfield Osborne
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.
Faith Popcorn, The
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Faith Sullivan
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan, Th
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
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