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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

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That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 1.

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I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 4.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

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Tender is the Night

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

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Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 2, ch. 2.

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Notebook E: Epigrams, Wise Cracks and Jokes." The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, 2009. Originally published in Notebook E, c. 1940.

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There are no second acts in American lives.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941, notes.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Rich Boy." Redbook, Jan. - Feb. 1926.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Rich Boy." F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-1926, edited by James L. W. West, III. Library of America, 2022.

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Saturday Evening Post, May 1920.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, edited by Jackson Bryer. Library of America, 2000.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Notebook O: Observations." The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, 2009. Originally published in Notebook O, c. 1940.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 22.

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The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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