F. Scott Fitzgerald

" 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. "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Past , Present , Memory
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" To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Months
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" Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. "
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Trouble , Connection , Discouragement
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" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "
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Ability , Vitality
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" The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. "
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Success , Sense , Romantic , Conviction
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" When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. "
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People , May
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" You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. "
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Want
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" What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? "
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Day
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" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "
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Success , Pretty , Cards
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" The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. "
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Reputation , Radical
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" A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. "
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Man , Time
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" Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. "
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Will , Speech
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" Action is character. "
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Action , Character
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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24-09-1896 21-12-1940 American novelist and short story writer. citation
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