Showing posts with label Scott Fitzgerald. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

"This Side Of Paradise" by Scott Fitzgerald

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  •           "Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a reverie of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . ."
  •  "School ruined his French and gave him a distaste for standard authors."
  • "It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
  • "he was a slave to his own moods"
  •           "your heart - you've probably been neglecting your heart - and you don't know"