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
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.