Home / Quotes / Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's a mining town in lotus land.”

Book:The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

Work

The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

This book is a meticulously reconstructed version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, offering readers a detailed look into the author's exploration of the American Dream during the 1920s. The narrative delves into the complexities of ambition and the pursuit of power, set against the backdrop of the era's economic prosperity and social upheaval. 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

“I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”

Made Stills Home Given Fun Party Break Green Dinner Envy Recognition Indian Engagement Guests Smallest Popularity Buttons Ohio Yacht Prima Donnas

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.”

Children Enough Seems Nations Parent Attention Strange Caught Manners Echoes Elders Precocious

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.”

“Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.”

Eye Force Voice Natural Havens Enthusiasm Brown Vitality Brown Eyes Baritones

Book: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 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

“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”

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 purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”

People Mind Philosophy Purpose Fighting Fiction Effects Reader Mood Appeals Thoughtful Lingering Oratory