Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is youthโs felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI was rather literary in collegeโone year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'โand now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isnโt just an epigramโlife is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald