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Quote by George D. Prentice

“A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.”

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George D. Prentice was an American historical figure born on December 18, 1802, and died on January 22, 1870. His profession and life experience are limited in information. more

“Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.”

Ifs Knows Giving Trying Beautiful Painting Complexes Boring Valuable Actresses Ass Noses Kicks Screws Twists Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:John Huston

“There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.”

Should Ideas America Past Adventure Tradition Equipment Inheritance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

“Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.”

Strong Subjects Personality Conversation Gentle Mutual Very Strong Strong Person Strong Personality

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.”

People Children Shows Form Young Difficult Records Murder Our Children Vices Tolerate Blank Larceny

Book:The Basil and Josephine Stories

Source: The Basil and Josephine Stories

“Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.”

World Forests Lakes Glamorous Places In The World Disillusionment

Book:Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.”

Turns Mines Band

Author:Craig Ferguson

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