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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.
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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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 -
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald