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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
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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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
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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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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.
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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Character is plot, plot is character.
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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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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
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