F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
- To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
- After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
- The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
- I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
- Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
- Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
- Forgotten is forgiven.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
