Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald