Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never “takes.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I learned a little of beauty– enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald