Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald