Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Crack-Up Quotes about Genius)

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Source:The Crack-Up (New Directions, ed. 1945), The Notebook: E. Epigrams, Wisecracks and Jokes, Page 123
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