“He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.”
More from F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”
“Some day I'll probably love other women - or maybe there'll never be anything but you.”