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
F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
She knew few words and believed in none.
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.