I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody,,generally including Zelda and often implying current company-after which current company tend to become less current and I wake up in strange places.When drunk I make them all pay and pay and pay-F. Scott Fitzgerald,Letter to Ernest Hemingway

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bookerdana · M

@SW-User What I found amazing was the ironic detachment that is the hallmark of a great writer.."current company tend to become less current"

He battled madness and alcoholism all his life but he strove never to lie to himself..or evidently Earnest!🙄

SW-User

@bookerdana he was very cynical and yet he could write something as beautiful as this...

bookerdana · M

Some of his most amazing observations are in his letters,I wanted to share one but it is not online..he did call himself a cynical idealist..but that was when he wore a younger man' clothes..why he wasn't wearing his own is a mystery!😛

SW-User

@bookerdana Yup... cynical idealist sounds about right :)

bookerdana · M

@SW-User I'll find the quote I was referring to ,I have The Complete Letters of ..also spoiled Priest!

bookerdana · M

@SW-User I'm as good as my word:"The young princes in velvet gathered in lovely domesticity around the queen amid the hush of rich draperies may presently grow up to be Pedro the Cruel or Charles the Mad, but the moment of beauty was there."FSF
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