To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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...

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

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

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

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

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

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

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.

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...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own...

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....

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.