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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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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, But that is all.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
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There was not a moving up into vacated places there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
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