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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
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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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town a poor boy in a rich boy's school a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
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Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.
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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]
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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
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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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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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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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No one should live beyond 30.
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