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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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