Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
F. Scott FitzgeraldDick tried to plunge over the Alpine crevasse between the sexes.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: demographics
In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon - for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPeople over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: life inspirational
Murder your darlings.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldthe intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWe drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
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