F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm trying my best.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.
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Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
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He Goya has selected from amongst the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual..
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Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
