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F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] American

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.		101
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.	Sad	102
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.	Great, Success	103
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.	Inspirational	104
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.	New Year's	105
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.	Happiness, Life	106
Forgotten is forgiven.	Forgiveness	107
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.		108
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.		109
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.		110
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.	Intelligence, Time	111
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.	Family	112
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.	Power	113
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.	Respect	114
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.	Chance	115
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.		116
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.	Men, Women	117
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.		118
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.		119
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.		120
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.		121
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.		122
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.	Hope, Romantic	123
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.	God	124
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.		125
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.		126
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.	Men	201
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.		202
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.	Morning	203
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.		204
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.		205
There are no second acts in American lives.		206
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?		207
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.		208
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.	Women	209
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.	Poetry	210
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.		211
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.		212
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.		213
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.		214
You can stroke people with words.		215
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.		216
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.		217
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.	Age	218
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.		219
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.		220
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.		221
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.		222
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.	Romantic, Success	223
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.	Communication	224
Action is character.		225
No decent career was ever founded on a public.		226
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.		301
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.		302
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.		303
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.		304
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.		305
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.	Intelligence	306
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.	Movies	307
The victor belongs to the spoils.	Success	308
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.		309
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.		310
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.		311
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.		312

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