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Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and deceased on December 21, 1940, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer renowned for his vivid depiction of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories, with his most notable works including "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby," the latter often hailed as the "Great American Novel." Despite his initial success, Fitzgerald faced personal and financial struggles, exacerbated by the Great Depression and his wife Zelda's mental health issues. Moving to Hollywood for screenwriting, he eventually succumbed to a heart attack at 44. Posthumously, his unfinished novel "The Last Tycoon" was completed and published, cementing his legacy as a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature.
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"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald