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“Amory looked at Myra with a glance in which emotions were Openly and hideously mixed.” (This Side of Paradise Quotes)
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“Amory resented such an avocation, as he resented people who were in a hurry, but which he revered more in his heart than anything in the world, just as he revered money, spent legacies, college professors and cetera. He resented it because it seemed unsuitable for a man who was learning to play with ideas, yet he was himself often wild with a desire to do something outstanding.”
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“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh. there’s sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”
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“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
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“Children adored him because he was like a child; youth reveled in his company because he was still a youth, and couldn’t be shocked.”
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“Dear, don’t think of getting out of bed yet. I’ve always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”
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“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
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“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”
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“Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.”
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“He’s sensitive and I don’t want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn’t care about him.”
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“His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before.”
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“How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.”
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
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“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
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“I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I’ve managed to pick up a good education.”
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“I want to be where people are young and ardent and beautiful. So far as I can see, all the rest of life is only dirty-gray.”
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“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”
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“I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”
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“I’ve enjoyed imagining you were my son, that perhaps when I was young I went into a state of coma and begat you, and when I came to, had no recollection of it… it’s the paternal instinct, Amory.”
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“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
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“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
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is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
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“In her less important moments she returned to America, met Stephen Blaine and married him—this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad.”
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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
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“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”
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“It’s completely unemotional; it’s uninspiring, dear God! I’m not happy!”
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“It’s funny, but it seems as though some girl is always taking advantage of me.”
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“Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.”
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“People like you must create. If you don’t create, you will become a menace to society.”
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“She was gone, definitely, finally gone. Until now he had half unconsciously cherished the hope deep in his heart that some day she would need him and send for him.”
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“That’s what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: That pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again.”
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“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
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“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
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“There’s one thing you’ve got to say for coal: it puts muscles on your soul.”
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
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“This is a story in heat. It will be given up to the overtraveled reader to supply the things which he knows very well were inexpressible.”
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“We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
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“You’ll fall in love with me yet. Don’t tell me you won’t.”
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“You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
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“You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not… No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
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“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
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“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn’t want to repeat her girlhood, she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
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