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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

  • Аннаfez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    That had been his nearest approach to success through conformity. The fundamental Amory, idle, imaginative, rebellious, had been nearly snowed under. He had conformed, he had succeeded, but as his imagination was neither satisfied nor grasped by his own success, he had listlessly, half-accidentally chucked the whole thing and become again:
    6. The fundamental Amory.
  • Bea Ftfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    I’m tres old and tres bored, Tom
  • Ai Kurimafez uma citaçãohá 6 meses
    … Well this side of Paradise! …
    There’s little comfort in the wise.
    Rupert Brooke
  • Ai Kurimafez uma citaçãohá 6 meses
    Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
  • New Neverlanderfez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
    I’ve always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
  • Stas Irodovfez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    Whenever Amory was submerged, his vanity was the last part to go below the surface, so he could still enjoy a comfortable glow when “Wookey-wookey,” the deaf old housekeeper, told him that he was the best-looking boy she had ever seen.
  • Stas Irodovfez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    He and Monsignor held the floor, and the older man, with his less receptive, less accepting, yet certainly not colder mentality, seemed content to listen and bask in the mellow sunshine that played between these two.
  • Stas Irodovfez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    “So your mother says—a remarkable woman; have a cigarette—I’m sure you smoke. Well, if you’re like me, you loathe all science and mathematics—”

    Amory nodded vehemently.

    “Hate ’em all. Like English and history.”
  • Stas Irodovfez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbor.
  • Stas Irodovfez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    there was a great and constantly increasing family of white cats that prowled the many flowerbeds and were silhouetted suddenly at night against the darkening trees.
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