F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.
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In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.
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People are smart, good and surprise me with the way they use our site.
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
