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
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.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!