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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Action is character.
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.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, th... (more F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes)
Fitzgerald: It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
Fitzgerald: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Fitzgerald: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Fitzgerald: Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
Fitzgerald: Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.... (more F. Scott Fitzgerald trivia)
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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Scottie Fitzgerald Smith |
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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Matthew J. Bruccoli |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age (Library of America) by Jackson R. Bryer |
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