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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald | respect

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.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald power

F. Scott Fitzgerald | power

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.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald poetry

F. Scott Fitzgerald | poetry

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald movies

F. Scott Fitzgerald | movies

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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F. Scott Fitzgerald morning

F. Scott Fitzgerald | morning

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

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F. Scott Fitzgerald men

F. Scott Fitzgerald | men

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

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Life

F. Scott Fitzgerald | life

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.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald intelligence

F. Scott Fitzgerald | intelligence

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.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald intelligence

F. Scott Fitzgerald | intelligence

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.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald hope

F. Scott Fitzgerald | hope

I’m a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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