“ Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald In his 1926 story “The Rich Boy,” used as a lead in for Richard Brody’s article abot Fitzgerald’s uncredited work on George Cukor’s 1939 classic film “The Women”
The folks from the New Yorker cartoon lounge have a few tips on enjoying The Fourth of July; “Don’t stare directly at fireworks, or they will remind you of how meaningless your life is; and parades are fun, but not to go to or be in or watch. So, yeah. Don’t involve yourself in the existence of a parade.”
