F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896–1940) · American Novelist

Was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896–1940) · American Novelist

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
You can stroke people with words.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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