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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred. I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hollywood and writers

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or ... - MORE People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

leadership

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

heroes | heroines

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Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own... - MORE Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

newspapers and magazines

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit. Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

artists

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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 lo... - MORE 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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

work

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I'm a romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. - MORE I'm a romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

romanticism

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

libraries

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

confusion

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

belief

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