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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. The Crack-Up, "Notebook G," ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).)
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
Author's full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.)
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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Tender Is the Night, bk. 2, ch. 19 (1934).)
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There are no second acts in American lives.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. The Last Tycoon, "Hollywood, ETC.," ed. Edmund Wilson (1941).)
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The men—the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter, June 3, 1920, to John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
Hibben had written Fitzgerald a letter lamenting the portrayal of the University in his recently published first novel, This Side of Paradise.)
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter, Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).)
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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.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. first published in Esquire (New York, Feb. 1936). The Crack-Up, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
Also see Orwell's comment on "contradiction"....)
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