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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Born: Sep 24, 1896
Died: Dec 21, 1940
Life Man Own People You Youth
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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
Time Intelligence Mind Ability Retain Ideas First-Rate Still Test Opposed Same Same Time Hold Function Two
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family Skin Enough Rules Bitter Wounds More Splits Like Heal Because Material Quarrels Go According Any Aches Things
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Year's You First Drink Take Takes Then Relatable
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational Ability Vitality Only Over Persist Shows Start
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good Writing Water Holding Breath Swimming Good Writing Your
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You Say Something Write Because Want
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
Happiness Life Struggle Defeat Pleasure Those Out Cheat Come Redeeming Conditions Essentially Deeper Things
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
Sad You Memory Past Harmonious Elude Find Remain Sadder Conception Forever Than Again Inadequate Present
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day Morning Soul Dark Three Always Real After Night
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
You Natural Discipline Power Think Others Else Take Tastes Either Your
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success Great Girl Pretty Girl Carefully Pretty She Were Plain Social Success Is Who Her Cards Plays
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
God Me Heart People Inside Wear Put Like Where Them
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born Foolish Idea Ideas Lot Conference Died Grand Ever
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hide Convictions Our Look Hills Caves Eighteen Which Forty-Five
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Me Unless Distinction Charm Never Combined Greatest Riches Fascinated
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man To Be Honest Willing Would Would-Be See Like Blind Blind Man Thing Honest
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Me Library Thought Drunk Sit About Week Been Up Sober Might Now
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Women Men Charming Known Mixture Get Mannerisms
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hope Will Hopes Person Romantic Against Sentimental Things Last Thinks
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth Generation Own Ought Critics Write Schoolmaster His Author Afterwards Next Ever
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
World Country Live Rule Beaches Does Clubs
The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success Spoils Victor Belongs
You can stroke people with words. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You People Words Stroke
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You Man Nothing Find Both Yale Hands Scratch Lucky
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You Other Humming Seems Only Poetry Quit After Whistling Keats Awhile
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remember See More Only Rationalize Look Talk Mississippi West Comment Little Act Less

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