I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhat'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott FitzgeraldSome men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
F. Scott Fitzgerald