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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American novelist whose romantic pursuit of Zelda (the Zussy) is invoked as inspiration for the male urge to write the great American novel to win a woman's love.

Mentions (12)
"He reads like a character from Fitzgerald or Salinger, but he's the man almost solely responsible for modern Civil Rights and the disaster in Vietnam."
"Ummmm buying a house so you can stay within view of your ex's place who already moved on and is in a new relationship??? Stalker much???"
But what about West Egg Jay????? · u/100tNod · ↑105 · 2022-01-22
"I just feel like being a woman you really don't have the upper hand in business, friendships or relationships. Fitzgerald was right 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'."
I'm in a hating being a woman phase · u/noname09834212 · ↑96 · 2025-11-10
"I'd have a couple of drinks somewhere overlooking the river before going home to read some Fitzgerald. In the morning I'd have a gentle run around the parks. It was so beautiful."
Having a smartphone and social media has made me a dumb, small-minded person · u/Affectionate-Toe7591 · ↑79 · 2024-06-13
"No recourse except to go F. Scott Fitzgerald mode. The Zussy must have been crazy"
"If Fitzgerald wrote Flappers and Philosophers today, it would be called "Art-Hoes and Edgelords" Roaring twenties 2.0 is well underway, folx. First as tragedy..."
"Re-reading Tender is the Night for like the fifth time and came across one of my favorite bits... 'This western-front business couldn't be done again, not for a long time... You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember... Why, this was a love battle"
F Scott Fitzgerald on WWI · u/number1amerifat · ↑47 · 2025-12-24
"F Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise. I found this well-written but somewhat empty and annoying - 'everything's fine if you're handsome and rich' - because I assumed that Fitzgerald was from a very privileged background. Then I read his Wikipedia page and he was from a very middle-class backgr"
Forced myself to read more in May · u/Hatanta · ↑37 · 2023-06-01
""I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes." This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald"
"No recourse except to go F. Scott Fitzgerald mode."
"See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind."
F Scott Fitzgerald on WWI · u/number1amerifat · ↑47 · 2025-12-24
"F Scott Fitzgerald - *This Side of Paradise*... he was from a very middle-class background with working parents which cast the book into a new light, gave it a lot of pathos - this was the life he *wished* he'd had as a young man"
Forced myself to read more in May · u/Hatanta · ↑37 · 2023-06-01
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