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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

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(1896 - 1940)

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
Conviction - Indulgence - Man - People - Righteousness - Selfishness
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
End - Weekend
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
World
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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
Finding - Making - Thinking - Youth
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I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
Amusement - Blindness - Difficulty - Game - Mindset - Product - Reason - State - Struggle - Traditions - Trial - World
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
Aspiration - Insomnia - Man - Sleeping
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Man - Time
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
Fools
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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.
Arms - Destiny - Feelings - Growing - Imagination - Loss - Painting - Wonder
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He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
Girl - Mindset - Vision
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
Effort - Farming - Gardening - Giving - Growing - Man - Movement - Obscurity - Operation - Sight - Smoking - Transcendence
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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
Materialism - Philosophy - Taste - Valid - Wisdom - World
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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
Football - Game - Life
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
Feelings - Haunting - Loneliness - Sometimes
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She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
Ecstasy - Implications - Laughing - Order
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
Knowledge - Love - Wedding
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
Egotism
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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You can stroke people with words.
People
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Poetry
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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.
Conditioning - Defeat - Essence - Happiness - Life - Pleasure - Redemption - Struggle
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
Knowledge
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Heroism - Show - Writing
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
Wants
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.
Kissing - Remembering
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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that voice was a deathless song.
Songs - Voice
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Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.
Conditioning - Individual - Industry - Paradox - Proposal
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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
Boy - Finding - Oneself - Wants
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
Children - Rich - Time
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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
Boundaries - Imagination - Slavery - World
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