F. Scott Fitzgerald Zitate auf Englisch

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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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.

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Action is character.

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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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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.

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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