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
If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
Action is character.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you.
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
Nick, on the Buchanans: ""They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made