“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 humour. 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 although we paint and paint we can longer sell the picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives, children and business associates are accepted as true.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned”, 1922
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