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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Date of Birth:
September 24, 1896
Date of Death:
December 21, 1940
Nationality:
American
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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