She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
F. Scott Fitzgerald