F Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24 1896 and was an American writer who wrote numbers of, novels, scripts, short stories. During his, wrote 4 novels and 150+ short stories. He got limited recognition during his tenure, he got popular acclaim after his death and become one of the best writers of the 20th century. F Scott Fitzgerald died on December 21 1940.
He has also given some life lessons;
1. Just because talent the road will be not easy: just because you have the talent it doesn’t mean that it will be easy to get success. The path comes with trouble, talent is just a cherry on the top of the cake, success is decided by how we use that talent.
2. Try again: Success is only got by consistency, sometimes you get a breakthrough in 1st trial and sometimes you get fail several times, our success depends on trying again till we hit Bonzai.
3. Note down: Write everything which comes into your mind, don’t think that you will keep this in the head because sometimes the greatest idea can also fade away by just a wink of another thought.
4. Edit after finishing the work: don’t ever edit the draft work, complete the whole work and then check it and see if it can be enhanced by anything else which can be added or can be subtracted, it will make the work more clean and tidy.
These were some of the life lessons from F Scott Fitzgerald, We have listed F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes to get inspiration and understand about life and to live in some imagination. Do enjoy it and improve yourself every day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
“After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“It takes two to make an accident.”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy — one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
“She was dazzling– alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
“You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not… No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
“His mind tired–tired with nothing, tired with everything, with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
“We all have souls of different ages.”
“I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.”
“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
“Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.”
“He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”
“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too.”
I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.
“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly.
“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
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