The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he...

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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you.' No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise

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.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

—Josh Billings

It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers.

—Alex Pentland in Social Physics

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself.… Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

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