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There are no second acts in American lives.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

More from F. Scott Fitzgerald

  1. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
  2. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
  3. The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
  4. You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
  5. The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute fo…
  6. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
  7. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young.
  8. At the heart of every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Topics in this quote

  • success
  • culture
  • america
  • consequence
  • failure
  • opportunity

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