All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Literature”

“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“The victor belongs to the spoils.”
“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”
“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.”
“The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.”
“It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
“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.”
“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.”
“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
“The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.”

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