Some closing thoughts from F. Scott Fitzgerald...or me...

Breezing through some books of mine tonight for the first time in eons, I came across passages I'd highlighted from THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. I was reminded of this brief phase of mine where i'd deface my books to note things that struck me. It's rather scary, actually, how MUCH I identify with Mr. Fitzgerald. Some words HE wrote...

"I'M A CYNICAL IDEALIST."

"Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons."

"It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them."