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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Luck Nothing Obnoxious Other People

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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

Topics: Both Find Hands Lucky Man Nothing Scratch Yale You

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing Like Out Own Point Points Your

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Any Did Forties Friends Know Love More Save Than Thirties Us Want

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Action is character.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Action Character

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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.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Around Atheist Back Crawl Dangerous Easiest Easiest Way Few Fold Get Go Outside Radical Reputation Shelter Shout Then Violent Way Years

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There are no second acts in American lives.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Acts American Lives Second

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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

Topics: Afterwards Always Critics Ever Generation His Idea My Generation Next Own Reach Wise Writer Writes Youth

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Blind Blind Man Honest Like Man See Thing To Be Honest Willing Would

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: American American Women Bewildered Faces Maps Most Over Relief Thirty Unhappiness Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1896

Died: December 21st, 1940

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