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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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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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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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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.
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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.
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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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No, interrupted Marcia emphatically. And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me. Horace stopped quickly in front of her. Why do you want me to kiss you? he asked intently. Do you just go round kissing people? Why, yes, admitted Marcia, unruffled. 'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.
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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
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