“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: intelligence
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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: romantic
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: time
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“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: communication
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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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
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Category: success
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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: business
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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: sad
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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
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: great
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