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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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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.
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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
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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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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
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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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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
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Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
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Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy
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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
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We all have souls of different ages
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