He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMen she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYour first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLet us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald