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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
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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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
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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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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
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I found something! Courage--just that courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.
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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
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