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Great Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
- Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying…
- A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
- His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
- They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;…
- Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
- taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
- Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides…
- If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at…
- France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it…
- And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that…
- Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the…
- It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your…
- His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four…
- They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just…
- I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They…
- Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so…
- Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted…
- 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…
- Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart…
- What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
- I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there…
- Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong