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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.

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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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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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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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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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I'm not much like myself any more.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
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The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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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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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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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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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
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