"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."

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"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Explore more quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

Work

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

Time

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."

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"Human sympathy has its limits."

Emotion

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."

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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."

Behavior

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

People

"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."

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"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."

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