F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Failing Quotes

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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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.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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