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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.
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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
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