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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
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Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
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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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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.
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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.
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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.
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Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.
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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.
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All I think of ever is that I love you.
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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
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He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
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