Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald