These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desireโI shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
F. Scott Fitzgerald