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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 2
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 FitzgeraldThoughts and Thinking - 3
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldVirtue - 4
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 5
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNew World -
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 7
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 8
Her voice is full of money.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRiches - 9
I know myself, but that is all.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSelf-knowledge - 10
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 11
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 - 12
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRiches - 13
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 14
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHonesty - 15
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSuffering -
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPersonality - 17
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHeroes and Heroism - 18
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 19
The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMen - 20
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIntelligence and Intellectuals - 21
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldUnited States of America - 22
What people are ashamed of, usually makes a good story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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