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“A man does not recover from such jolts- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.” (The Crack-Up Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another – as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true.”
The Crack-Up
“But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work- and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to ‘succeed’-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“The world only exists in your eyes– your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you’re trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I’d try to make the world crack with me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
