I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' — and now I was going to brin… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.