one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyโone that everything afterward savors of antiโclimax.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNow the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
F. Scott FitzgeraldYouโre just the romantic age,โ she continued- โfifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.โ - Hildegarde
F. Scott Fitzgerald