The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of...

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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

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

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

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

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

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

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

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

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the...

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the...

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as...

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as...