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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
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never takes. You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
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I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.
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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
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What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining. I’m glad Jay. Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
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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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Feel like criticizing any one, he told me, just remember
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Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
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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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