“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby".

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”

“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”