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Certain Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely…
- I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
- Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period…
- He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into…
- It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and…
- Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of…
- Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.
- Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can…
- And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard…
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