F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Quotes

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There are no second acts in American lives.

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

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

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

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Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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

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Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."

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They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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