F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

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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.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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