one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!