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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

  • Аннацитує5 років тому
    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 Ftцитує6 років тому
    I’m tres old and tres bored, Tom
  • New Neverlanderцитує10 місяців тому
    I’ve always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
  • Stas Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    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 Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    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 Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    “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 Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbor.
  • Stas Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    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.
  • Stas Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    There was, also, a curious strain of weakness running crosswise through his makeup … a harsh phrase from the lips of an older boy (older boys usually detested him) was liable to sweep him off his poise into surly sensitiveness, or timid stupidity … he was a slave to his own moods and he felt that though he was capable of recklessness and audacity, he possessed neither courage, perseverance, nor self-respect.
  • Stas Irodovцитує2 роки тому
    “If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
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