Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist
Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Sep 24, 1896
Died: Dec 21, 1940
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.
Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films many times. His short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was the basis for a 2008 film. Tender Is the Night was filmed in 1962, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in Beloved Infidel.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
great
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
art
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
women
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
God
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
poetry