F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 September 1896
CitySaint Paul, MN
CountryUnited States of America
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.