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442 Powerful F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes to Inspire You
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1.
“Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy
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Criticism
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Opportunity
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Perspective
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Wisdom
2.
“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Social Status
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Food
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Humor
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Observation
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Critique
3.
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Parties
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Atmosphere
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Wealth
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Social Life
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Description
4.
“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
Education
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Elitism
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Appearance
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Wealth
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Comparison
5.
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friendship
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Appreciation
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Life
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Death
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Advice
6.
“For what it's worth. it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspiration
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Life Advice
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Change
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Self-improvement
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Courage
7.
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Judgment
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Hope
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Wisdom
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Open-mindedness
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Human Nature
8.
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Admiration
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Compliment
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Affection
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Superlative
9.
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death
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Nature
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Blessing
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Poetic
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Melancholy
10.
“She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emotion
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Attachment
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Desperation
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Love
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Description
11.
“Don't forget who you are and where you come from.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Identity
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Roots
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Self-awareness
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Advice
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Heritage
12.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature
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Universality
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Belonging
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Human Condition
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Connection
13.
“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth
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Happiness
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Priorities
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Desire
,
Human Nature
14.
“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this – so accidental – just when everything was going well.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Suffering
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Youth
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Age
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Wisdom
15.
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friendship
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Aging
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Disillusionment
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Life Stages
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Wisdom
16.
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing
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Creativity
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Time
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Experience
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Process
17.
“Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Description
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Atmosphere
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Imagination
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Nature
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Observation
18.
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Temporality
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Experience
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Disillusionment
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Metaphor
19.
“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laughter
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Joy
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Ease
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Human Nature
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Positivity
20.
“So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Desperation
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Intensity
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Relationships
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Existence
21.
“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry
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Comparison
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Art Appreciation
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Keats
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Literary Critique
22.
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created – nothing.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Individuality
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Stereotypes
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Creativity
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Writing
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Observation
23.
“The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption – and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Appearances
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Dreams
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Corruption
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Farewell
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Contrast
24.
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personality
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Success
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Behavior
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Human Nature
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Observation
25.
“I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morality
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Order
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Human Nature
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Desire For Control
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Disillusionment
26.
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age
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Youth
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Aging
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Societal Change
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Nostalgia
27.
“All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness – and by that promise giving it. It gave love hope in its own survival. It could do no more.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
City Life
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Hope
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Promise
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Summer
,
Atmosphere
28.
“In fact, I once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you'll excuse the presumption.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Imagination
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Vulnerability
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Self-doubt
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Relationships
29.
“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Social Critique
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Wealth
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Art
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Inequality
,
Capitalism
30.
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing
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Motivation
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Creativity
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Expression
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Purpose
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