Courage is grace under pressure.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I am always in love.
He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.
You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.
I’m not unfaithful, darling. I’ve plenty of faults but I’m very faithful. You’ll be sick of me I’ll be so faithful.
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
You’ve such a lovely temperature.
I write description in longhand because that’s hardest for me and you’re closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
You, you, he raged at himself. Yes, you. You told yourself the first time you saw him that when he would be friendly would be when the treachery would come.
Nunca salgas de viaje con una persona que no amas.