Tender is the Night (1934)

"'Why do you want to fight the Soviets?' McKisco said. 'The greatest experiment ever made by humanity? And the Riff? It seems to me it would be more heroic to fight on the just side.'
'How do you find out which it is?' asked Barban dryly.
'Why - usually everybody intelligent knows.'
'Are you a Communist?'
'I'm a Socialist, said McKisco, 'I sympathize with Russia.'
'Well, I'm a soldier,' Barban answered pleasantly. 'My business is to kill people. I fought against the Riff because I'm a European, and I have fought the Communists because they want to my property from me.'
'Of all the narrow-minded excuses,' McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liasion with some one else, but without success."

The Great Gatsby (1926)

This Side of Paradise (1920)

"So Amory declaimed "The Ode to a Nightingale" to the bushes they passed.
"I'll never be a poet," said Amory as he finished. "I'm not enough of´a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry."

The Pat Hobby Stories (1962)

"'Could you write me a pass?' Pat pleaded. 'Just a word on your card?'
'I'll look into it.' said Mr Marcus. 'Just now I've got things on my mind. I'm going to a luncheon.' He sighed profoundly. 'They wan't I should meet this new Orson Welles that's in Hollywood.'
Pat's heart winced. There it was again - that name, sinister and remorseless, spreading like a dark cloud over all his skies.
'Mr Marcus,' he said so sincerely that his voice trembled, 'I wouldn't be surprised if Orson Welles is the biggest menace that's come to Hollywood for years. He gets a hundred and fifty grand a picture and I wouldn't be surprised if he was so radical that you had to have all new equipment and start all over again like you did with sound in 1928.'
'Oh my God!' groaned Mr Marcus.
'And me,' said Pat, 'all I wan't is a pass and no money - to leave this as they are.'
Mr Marcus reaced for his card case."

- Pat Hobby and Orson Welles (1940)

The Beautiful and Damned (1922)