F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night (1934)

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
See that little stream—we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it—a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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The change came a long way back, but at first it didn't show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.

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You once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."

F. Scott Fitzgerald