F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Melancholic

“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”

Care Gone Long Ago

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Creative

“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”

Matter Together Say Anything

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Optimistic

“Everything that begins, begins with blood.”

Blood

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Confident

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

People Honest

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Love

“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”

Agony Glances Her Beauty

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Funny

“It takes two to make an accident.”

Two Accidents

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Sad

“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”

Want Dies

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Sad

“I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”

Years Two Drawing

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Philosophical

“Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.”

Giving Success Destiny

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Angry

“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.”

Humanity Zero Admitting

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Love

“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

Girl Stars Flower

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Love

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”

Mind Girl Forever

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