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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
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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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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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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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
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Murder your darlings.
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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.
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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
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