Shriya

“There's nothing I'd violate certain principles for." "But how do you know when you're violating them? You have to guess at things just like most people do. You have to apportion the values when you look back. You finish up the portrait then—paint in the details and shadows.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later. For instance, the beautiful word, the colored and glittering word, and the beautiful simile belong in prose now. To get attention poetry has got to strain for the unusual word, the harsh, earthy word that's never been beautiful before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“He was at once the commonest and the most remarkable product of civilization. He was nine out of ten people that one passes on a city street—and he was a hairless ape with two dozen tricks. He was the hero of a thousand romances of life and art—and he was a virtual moron, performing staidly yet absurdly a series of complicated and infinitely astounding epics over a span of threescore years.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned