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The Crack-Up

A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-ni

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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Existence, Perspective, Life

“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Tragedy, Hero, writer, Novelist, literary

“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to "succeed" — and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the fu…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – 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…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Forgotten is forgiven.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com