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Danh ngôn của F. Scott Fitzgerald (Sứ mệnh: 2)

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.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Forgotten is forgiven.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.