Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

• 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.

• Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

• Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

• The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.