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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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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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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--
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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.
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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)
F. Scott Fitzgerald