Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.
F. Scott FitzgeraldEvery one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: patience
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: alcohol
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: philosophy
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
F. Scott FitzgeraldUnlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick--and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldbut they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPeople living alone get used to loneliness.
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