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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.
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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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, But that is all.
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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her she would be just as strong without him.
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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
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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.
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