Francis Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea,
you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the
romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
This Side of Paradise
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as
happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link
between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure
itself.
Tender is The Night
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.
There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds
still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or
of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year,
but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
Tender Is the Night
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart.
Tender Is the Night
He was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a
reflection in her wet eyes.
Tender is The Night
Either you thinkor else others have to think for you and
take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and
sterilize you.
Tender Is the Night
