F. Scott Fitzgerald

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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No decent career was ever founded on a public. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

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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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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