I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
F. Scott FitzgeraldDon't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.
F. Scott Fitzgerald