“Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.”
Book:The Crack-up
Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work
The Crack-up
A compilation of personal reflections and narratives that delve into the depths of human emotion, particularly focusing on the author's own experiences with mental breakdown and the broader implications of societal and personal turmoil. more
Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, renowned for his works that encapsulate the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. His most celebrated novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' is a critical and commercial success, reflecting the themes of the American Dream and the decline of the American upper class. more
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“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
“All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.”
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