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Short Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
- 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…
- In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
- There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the…
- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that…
- He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his…
- He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
- ...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each…
- A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded…
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