There are no second acts in American lives.F. Scott Fitzgerald
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Novelist of the Jazz Age · 1896 – 1940
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist whose masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) became the defining portrait of the Jazz Age and is now ranked among the greatest American novels. His other works include This Side of Paradise (1920) and Tender Is the Night (1934). He died in Hollywood at 44, believing himself a failure, shortly before Gatsby's posthumous canonization.
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