Quotations From F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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• 21.

  Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook E," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 22.

  I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it—on the inside.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Monroe Stahr, in The Last Tycoon, ch. 1 (1941).
  
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• 23.

  I'm a romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Amory Blaine, in This Side of Paradise, bk. 2, ch. 1 (1920).
  
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• 24.

  Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. The narrator (Nick Carraway), in The Great Gatsby, ch. 1 (1925).
• 25.

  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 (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Early Success," essay first published in American Cavalcade (Oct. 1937), The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 26.

  No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. repr. In The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). "Early Success," American Cavalcade (October 1937).
• 27.

  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 (1896-1940), U.S. author. repr. In The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). "Echoes of the Jazz Age," Scribner's (New York, Nov. 1931).
  
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• 28.

  It's a mining town in lotus land.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Wylie White, in The Last Tycoon, ch. 1 (1941).
• 29.

  The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook D," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 30.

  Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Narrator (Nick Carraway), in The Great Gatsby, ch. 7 (1925).
  
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