“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
Source: The Crack-up
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Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
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 Crack-up
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
Source: The Crack-up
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
“It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
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: 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
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
Source: The Crack-up
“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
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
“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
Source: The Last Tycoon
“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
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
“The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.”
Source: The Crack-up
“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
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
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 a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”
Source: A Life in Letters
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
“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
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 Great Gatsby
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
“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
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
“You can stroke people with words.”
Source: The Crack-up
“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
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 Crack-up
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.”
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
“No decent career was ever founded on a public.”
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: A Life in Letters
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'
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