F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Love

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

Writing World Tired

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Angry

“One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...”

Children Time Rich

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Hopeful

“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”

Sunshine Morrow

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Funny

“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.”

Games Baseball

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Spiritual

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”

Real Character Sometimes

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Creative

“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”

People

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Determined

“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.”

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Melancholic

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

Beautiful Simple Meaningful

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Lonely

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

Night Loneliness Twilight

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Melancholic

“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.”

Grace Generations Virtue

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Love

“How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.”

Eye Would Be Wine

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Sad

“A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...”

Men War Generations

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