“ She wanted to know what American writers I liked. Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson… No, living. Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary au… Truman Capote
“ The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a pi… F. Scott Fitzgerald
