F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

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• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

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• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

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• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

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• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

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• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

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• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

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• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

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• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

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• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

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• Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

  

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• It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

  

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• I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

  

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  • Night
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• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  

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  • Stop
  • Tomorrow
  • Starting

• The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

  

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• The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Night
  • Rain
  • Fence