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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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She was incurably dishonest.
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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.
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Nothing any good isn't hard.
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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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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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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!
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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
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