She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.