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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Tattoo, Time
The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dream, Time, Youth
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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
Education, Time, Positive Thinking
"The Crack-Up" (1936)

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Memories, Past
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Childhood, Growth
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Children, Rich
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1980). “The Great Gatsby”

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Men, Excellence

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, People, Youth
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3529, e-artnow

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Loneliness, Men
The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Past, Glowing
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.471, e-artnow

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