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"34 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings

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Born: September 24, 1896. Died: December 21, 1940 | Novelist | Essayist | Screenwriter |

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Confuse Defeat Final Never
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

God Heart Inside Like
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Ability First-Rate Function Hold
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Ability Only Over Persist
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

According Aches Any Because
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Ability Effect Genius Mind
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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.

Discipline Either Else Natural
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Awe-Inspiring Curious Display Drunk
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Anything Big Just Man
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Any Did Forties Friends
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Cards Carefully Girl Great
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Chemical Dream Everybody Form
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

About Been Drunk Library
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

American American Women Bewildered Faces
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Begin Country End Few
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

After Except Life Love
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Career Decent Ever Founded
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

About Being Danger Depressing
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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.

Bluff Charming Depths Heads
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Against Hope Hopes Last
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings