Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald