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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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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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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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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
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She knew few words and believed in none.
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How different it all was from what you'd planned.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.
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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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