"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Topic(s): Great More From F. Scott Fitzgerald "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material." "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle." "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art." More In Great "The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."― Otto von Bismarck "This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school."― Thomas Dekker "I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it’s difficult for ‘poor people’ – poor white people, brown people – to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are."― Henry Louis Gates