F Scott Fitzgerald quotes

" First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism

" At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide. " # Belief # Love # Illusion

" What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. " # Books - Reading

" Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. " # Pleasure

" If you're strong enough, there are no precedents. " # Action

" Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. " # Riches # Life and Living # Cynics and Cynicism

" He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. " # Faces

" At the heart of every great fortune lies a great crime. " # Crime and Criminals # Lies and Lying # Fortune

" There are no second acts in American lives. " # America # Freedom # Power

" No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. " # Honesty # Blindness # Love