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Inspirational Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

50 Inspirational quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Courage—just that—is described as a rule to life that we can cling to. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about running faster, stretching arms farther, and the idea that we are always either the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, or the tired. He also reminds us that even a rotten crowd can be worth a whole bunch together.

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The rich are different from us.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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“Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.”

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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”

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“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the…

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Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put…

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“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,…

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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table…

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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and…

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then…

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you…

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“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If…

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“Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long…

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“My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till…

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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Englishmen must have an island.

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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“They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men…

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…

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