F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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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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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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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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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
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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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You can stroke people with words.
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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
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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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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.
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Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.
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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.