Quote #85
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young.
More from F. Scott Fitzgerald
- She's got to be a loyal, frank person if she's got to bitch everyone in the world to do it.
- The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute fo…
- The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
- 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…
- There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
- 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…
- There are no second acts in American lives.
- Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.