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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

American - Author | September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry You Quit Seems Only After

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flower Body Her Guarantee Calculated

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Me Library Thought Week Drunk Sober

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wise Youth Generation Reach Critics

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People Luck Chance Nothing Obnoxious

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Look Hide Eighteen Convictions Hills

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Respect Simple Man Curious People

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Art Man Small Great Man

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life Love People Youth Others Offer

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life Profound Pessimist Depressing

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women American Thirty Over Maps

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Age Children Youth Party Jazz Over

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