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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 have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
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