F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.


Citations

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up. Edited by Edmund Wilson, New Directions, 1945, p. 69.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Born: September 24, 1896
  • Died: December 21, 1940
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and Short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.