F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase- 'I love you.' (From: The Offshore Pirate)
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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.
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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.