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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Country
End
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People
May
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life
Success
Conviction
Romantic
Sense
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ability
Vitality
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Connection
Discouragement
Trouble
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life
Months
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work
Idea
Growth
Eyes
Gold
Man
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Women
American
Faces
Unhappiness
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life
Being
Danger
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence
Time
Ideas
Ability
First
Mind
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Country
World
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age
Children
Jazz
Party
Youth