"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Men
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
More From F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
- "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
- "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
More In Men
- "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."― Erich Fromm
- "Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."― Charles Caleb Colton
- "Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."― Aeschylus