The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror. — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button,… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror. — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where the money… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
