F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Talent
  • Journalist
  • Thousand