F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Literature
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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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.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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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.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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.
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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.
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