“The Beautiful and Damned” by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Quote and Excerpt
“We all have souls of different ages,”
“I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.”
“Oh God! One minute it’s my world, and the next I’m the world’s fool.”
“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”
“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud — proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
“unloved women have no biographies — they have histories.”
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor”
“These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyze me and tell me I’m this because of this or that because of that.”
“Brutal men were tender, negligible men were astonishingly loyal and lovable, and, often, honorable men took attitudes that were anything but…
