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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

He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.


Richard Finney


#melodrama #romance #dreams

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#freedom #poor #rich #the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz #freedom

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant.


Matthew Joseph Bruccoli


#friendship #hemingway #writers #friendship

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires


Jodi Picoult


#father #firefighting #heaven #hell #humor

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#fitzgerald #loneliness #scott #life

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#gatsby #lonely #love #romance #love

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#courage-in-love #courageous #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#the-great-gatsby #beauty

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.


Dionne Warwick


#careers #davis #ella #ella fitzgerald #emulate






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