Died Today (December 21st): F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

Born: September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: December 21, 1940 (age 44) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Zelda Sayre (3 April 1920 – 21 December 1940) (his death) (1 child)

[on free will] The man who arrives young believes that he exercises his will because his star is shining. The man who only asserts himself at 30 has a balanced idea of what will-power and fate have each contributed. The one who gets there at 40 is liable to put the emphasis on will alone.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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