Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSo there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAfter all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott FitzgeraldVery few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
F. Scott FitzgeraldDaisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
F. Scott Fitzgerald