F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I was too absorbed to be responsive

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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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 shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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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.

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They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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