But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWomen are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.
F. Scott Fitzgerald