Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Family Quotes, Quarrels Quotes

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty...

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches...

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

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

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

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from...

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from...

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

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Action is character.

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...