F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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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 write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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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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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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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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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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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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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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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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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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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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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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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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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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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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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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.