American - Author | September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
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
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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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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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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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.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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