Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Notebook E: Epigrams, Wise Cracks and Jokes." The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, 2009. Originally published in Notebook E, c. 1940.

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