I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldi was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
F. Scott FitzgeraldI learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
F. Scott FitzgeraldEven when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldsometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy
F. Scott Fitzgerald