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" Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Movies
Advertising
Humanity
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" It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. "
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" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "
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" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "
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" After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. "
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" I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. "
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" Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. "
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" The victor belongs to the spoils. "
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" Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. "
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" In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. "
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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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" No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. "
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" 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. "
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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
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" Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. "
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