Fitzgerald

Famous quotes containing the word fitzgerald:

    Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Listen, little Elia: draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)