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We both fitted. if our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. but deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. i didn't know what i wanted

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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We Both Fitted. If Our Corners Were

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We both fitted. if our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. but deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. i didn't know what i wanted

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I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that i loved when i was a kid and i just - because i could always write dialogue, because i always had a sense of how people spoke. and because i had a strong narrative sense; growing up and loving stories, loving novels, i just seem to know how to tell a story and i read a lot, i went to a lot of movies, i went to a lot of plays, and it rubbed off on me. and that's all. it just rubbed off on me.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. i think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. we use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

Longing surged up within me. i wanted it. oh god, i wanted it. i didn't want to hear jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. i wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. i wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. i wanted to take vacations together. i wanted someone to hold me when i was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. i wanted someone to love.

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. it is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. and what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. i wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. i wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. i wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. i wanted that eye extinguished so that i might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. i wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what i had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. we might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

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