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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes


An American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. 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, Tender is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.

Here are some famous quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

America is a willingness of the heart.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

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First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

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Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

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Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.