"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer closely associated with the Jazz Age. He is best known for The Great Gatsby and for his portrayals of wealth, aspiration, and social change in 20th-century America. His work became central to the American literary canon.