Quote #81

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from F. Scott Fitzgerald

  1. Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
  2. Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-in…
  3. No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
  4. See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month to walk to it, a whole empire walking very sl…
  5. She's got to be a loyal, frank person if she's got to bitch everyone in the world to do it.
  6. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
  7. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young.
  8. It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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