More from F. Scott Fitzgerald

  1. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
  2. You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you had better. This is not a legend, this is a reputation - and seen in per…
  3. You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
  4. He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmet…
  5. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
  6. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the bu…
  7. There are no second acts in American lives.
  8. Fitzgerald was a better just plain writer than all of us put together. Just words writing.

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