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Top 20 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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

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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

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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