The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldhe was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
F. Scott Fitzgerald