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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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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
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No, interrupted Marcia emphatically. And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me. Horace stopped quickly in front of her. Why do you want me to kiss you? he asked intently. Do you just go round kissing people? Why, yes, admitted Marcia, unruffled. 'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
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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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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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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!
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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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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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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
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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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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
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