Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald