Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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.”
“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.”
— 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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