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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
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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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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She was dazzling-- alight it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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