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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
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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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
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All I think of ever is that I love you.
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Englishmen must have an island.
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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.
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He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever you can't live forever.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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To most women art is a form of scandal.
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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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