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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.
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 you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.
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Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
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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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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read read what? everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.
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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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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.
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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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I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.
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