Quotations From F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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• 31.

  One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Narrator (Nick Carraway) describing Tom Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby, ch. 1 (1925).
• 32.

  The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. First published in Esquire (New York, July 1932). My Lost City, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 33.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Quoted in Andrew Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald, ch. 6 (1962).
  
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• 34.

  Action is character.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Notes for The Last Tycoon, "Hollywood, Etc.," (1941).
• 35.

  The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook O," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 36.

  Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook O," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Fitzgerald studied at Princeton.
• 37.

  Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook O," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 38.

  There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook L," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
  
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• 39.

  Shakespeare—whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. "Notebook L," The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
• 40.

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

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