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No one should live beyond 30.
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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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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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.
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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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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
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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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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 am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
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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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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
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Well, let it pass, he thought April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing
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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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She was dazzling-- alight it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
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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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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
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I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
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It takes two to make an accident.
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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
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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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