Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
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Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Don't forget who you are and where you come from.”
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.”
Source: (The Great Gatsby)
Source: Tender is the Night
“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
Source: The Crack-up
Source: The Great Gatsby
Source: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Basil and Josephine Stories
Source: The Crack-up
Source: Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)
“Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.”
Source: The Basil and Josephine Stories
“Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Crack-up
“Englishmen must have an island.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: The Crack-up
“I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
Source: The Crack-up
“If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Crack-up
“I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.”
“Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.”
Source: The Crack-up
“This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.”
Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“To most women art is a form of scandal.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you”
Source: A Life in Letters
Source: The Crack-up
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
Source: On Booze (New Directions Pearls)