10 Quotes by F.Scott Fitzgerald



  • Author F.Scott Fitzgerald
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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.

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    They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made

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    He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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    I'm not sure what I'll do, but-well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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