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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
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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Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.
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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
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You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
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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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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.
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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
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How different it all was from what you'd planned.
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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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