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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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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.
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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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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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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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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.
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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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 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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