“How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.”
This book is a collection of letters written by the author over the course of their life, providing an intimate look at their personal experiences, reflections, and relationships with others. more
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, renowned for his works that encapsulate the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. His most celebrated novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' is a critical and commercial success, reflecting the themes of the American Dream and the decline of the American upper class. more
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
“What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.”
“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
“...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”