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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You can stroke people with words.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
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'Look here, old sport, ... what's your opinion of me, anyhow?' A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.
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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald