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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
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Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
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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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I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
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I want to do everything in the world with you.
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
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I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
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