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The victor belongs to the spoils.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Belongs Spoils Victor

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Childhood Early Early Childhood Exercising Faculty Had Mean Men Necessity Neglect Since Some Some Men Were Which

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Any Any Other Way Axiom Done Eyes Forgotten Front Gold Got Growth His Hold Idea Long Make Man Other Way Work You

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Caves Convictions Eighteen Forty-Five Hide Hills Look Our Which

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Act Comment Less Little Look Mississippi More Only Rationalize Remember See Talk West

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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.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: All My Life Collect Conceive Data Life Minutes Months My Life Three Took Write

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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Awe-Inspiring Curious Display Drunk Inhibitions Insane Like Lost Man Often People Races Rather Respect Simple Something Who

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Charming Get Known Mannerisms Men Mixture Women

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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

Topics: Afterwards Author Critics Ever Generation His Next Ought Own Write Youth

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Beaches Clubs Country Does Live Rule World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1896

Died: December 21st, 1940

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