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He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients when he entered St. Regis'. But the Minneapolis years were not a thick enough overlay to conceal the "Amory plus Beatrice" from the ferreting eyes of a boarding school, so St. Regis' had very painfully drilled Beatrice out of him and begun to lay down new and more conventional planking on the fundamental Amory. But both St. Regis' and Amory were unconscious of the fact that this fundamental Amory had not in himself changed. Those qualities for which he had suffered: his moodiness, his tendency to pose, his laziness, and his love of playing the fool, were now taken as a matter of course, recognized eccentricities in a star quarter-back, a clever actor, and the editor of the "St. Regis' Tattler"; it puzzled him to see impressionable small boys imitating the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#this-side-of-paradise #youth #change

I’ll agree with you if you promise to argue with me. That’s what love is, right? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#change

God remains the same—faithful, loving and powerful—through changes big and small. ↗

— Janet P. Eckles

#encouragement #change

A moment with Jesus changed everything. ↗

— Judah Smith

#jesus-christ #change

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture. ↗

— Marjorie Garber

#change

The best way to deal with 'Change' is to lead it! ↗

— Clifford L Feightner

#fight-for-life #rcc #renal-cell-carcinoma #change

In that exact moment, moving away from the path twice didn’t seem anything at all. When we chose one street instead of the other we don’t usually say «Now, at this time and place, my destiny changes.» We say it afterwards (...) ↗

— Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

#change

I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change in positive ways I write in hope to make a difference After I have giving up the ghost I would have written to leave my foot prints behind ↗

— O Crisstopher

#change

I never trusted the women i was involved with to tell the truth,because the truth never changes,but as i knew so well,people did.I knew it wasn't everyone,some women did have staying power,but it was impossible to tell which ones they were.Women should have come labelled-it would have made life so much simpler. ↗

— Mike Gayle

#love #women #change

Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#women #change