the growth of intimacy is like that || F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The growth of intimacy is
like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished
product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are
required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best
lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the
pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we
can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such
fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business
associates are accepted as true.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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