Quotations From F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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• 81.

  The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Narrator (Nick Carraway), in The Great Gatsby, ch. 1 (1925).
• 82.

  Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Amory Blaine, in This Side of Paradise, bk. 2, ch. 5 (1920).
• 83.

  A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Amory Blaine, in "Restlessness," bk. 2, ch. 2, This Side of Paradise (1920).
  
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• 84.

  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 (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter, June 10, 1917, to his favorite cousin Cecilia, written when he was 20. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
  
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• 85.

  Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter, April 27, 1940, to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
• 86.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. letter, Aug. 3, 1940, to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963). Fitzgerald described Ode on a Grecian Urn as "unbearably beautiful with every syllable as inevitable as the notes in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (same source).
  
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