"I was a little shocked at the elaborateness…" — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie."
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709 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but…
- Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by…
- America is a willingness of the heart.
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- That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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- To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of…
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