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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 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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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
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A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
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You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.
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To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.
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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.
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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
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I want to be a society vampire, you see.
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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
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Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town a poor boy in a rich boy's school a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.
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