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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Advertising, Criticism, Honesty, Business, Social Commentary
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“Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Connection, Isolation, Intimacy, Moment, Human Interaction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Connection, Isolation, Intimacy, Moment, Human Interaction“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.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life Philosophy, Struggle, Satisfaction, Pessimism, Resilience
F. Scott Fitzgerald Life Philosophy, Struggle, Satisfaction, Pessimism, Resilience“There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Culture, Tragedy, Failure, National Identity, Perspective
F. Scott Fitzgerald American Culture, Tragedy, Failure, National Identity, Perspective“But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Individuality, Authenticity, Flavor Metaphor, Preference, Character
F. Scott Fitzgerald Individuality, Authenticity, Flavor Metaphor, Preference, Character“As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Intimacy, Existence, Gratitude, Sensuality
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Intimacy, Existence, Gratitude, Sensuality“Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Disillusionment, Lost Generation, Faith, War, Societal Change
F. Scott Fitzgerald Disillusionment, Lost Generation, Faith, War, Societal Change“Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life, Chaos, Metaphor, Fairness, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Life, Chaos, Metaphor, Fairness, Human Nature“Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perspective, Nostalgia, Glamour, Change, Memory
F. Scott Fitzgerald Perspective, Nostalgia, Glamour, Change, Memory“I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe – and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laziness, Comfort, Social Dynamics, Human Nature, Contradictory Desires
F. Scott Fitzgerald Laziness, Comfort, Social Dynamics, Human Nature, Contradictory Desires“Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Connection, Unity, Relationships, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Connection, Unity, Relationships, Human Nature“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Routine, Life Metaphor, Societal Norms, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Time, Routine, Life Metaphor, Societal Norms, Human Nature“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
City, Perception, Beauty, Promise, Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald City, Perception, Beauty, Promise, Description“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Social Critique, Wealth, Art, Inequality, Capitalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Social Critique, Wealth, Art, Inequality, Capitalism“I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream, He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Disillusionment, Dreams, Regret, Perception, Loss
F. Scott Fitzgerald Disillusionment, Dreams, Regret, Perception, Loss“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius, Action, Creativity, Manifestation, Human Potential
F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius, Action, Creativity, Manifestation, Human Potential“I want to be a society vampire, you see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Social Status, Desire, Identity, Superficiality
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Social Status, Desire, Identity, Superficiality“I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Temptation, Self-control, Habits, Relationships, Caution
F. Scott Fitzgerald Temptation, Self-control, Habits, Relationships, Caution“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness, Empathy, Observation, Youth, Wasted Potential
F. Scott Fitzgerald Loneliness, Empathy, Observation, Youth, Wasted Potential