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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
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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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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.
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She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.
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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
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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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We all have souls of different ages
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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
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She was dazzling-- alight it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.
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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
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People living alone get used to loneliness.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
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