And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
— The Great Gatsby (via laylaflowers)
according to f scott fitzgerald,
worry about:
- courage
- cleanliness
- efficiency
don’t worry about
- popular opinion
- the past
- the future
- boys
- parents
- anybody getting ahead of you
- failure, unless it comes through your own fault
- disappointments
- pleasures
- mosquitoes
i mean basically he was a genius (duh)
I’m not sentimental - I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via and-holly-goes-lightly)
