Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald