Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Quotes
11 November 2014
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
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11 November 2014
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
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11 November 2014
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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11 November 2014
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one.... Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
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11 November 2014
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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11 November 2014
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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11 November 2014
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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11 November 2014
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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11 November 2014
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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11 November 2014
There are no second acts in American lives.
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