F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
• The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
• The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for…
• Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had…
• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom,…
• America is a willingness of the heart.
• When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
• Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
• That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
• I used to build dreams about you.
• To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out…
• The rich are different from us.
• You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
• He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
• Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
• Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might…
• If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
• If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed…
• That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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