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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
* He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1896.
* He attended Princeton University, but left without graduating.
* He published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920.
* He is best known for his novels The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934).
* He died in Hollywood, California in 1940.
* He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
* His works have been adapted into numerous films and television shows.
* His writing is still widely read and studied today.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Think how you love me," she whispered. " I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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