And will I like being called a jazz-baby?_x000D_ You will love it.
Interpretation
The quote plays on the idea of embracing one's identity and the joy that comes from it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote suggests that being labeled as a 'jazz-baby,' a term that evokes the spirit of the Jazz Age, is not only accepted but celebrated. It implies that embracing one's association with the vibrant cultural movement of jazz music brings happiness and a sense of belonging.
In practice
This quote can be used as an introduction in a jazz-themed event to encourage participants to embrace their passion for the music.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.
Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.
Now and again thousands of memories _x000D_ converge, harmonize, _x000D_ arrange themselves around a central idea _x000D_ in a coherent form, _x000D_ and I write a story.
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