Quotes from bookTender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January and April 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.
“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
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“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”
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“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
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“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”
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“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
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“She knew few words and believed in none.”
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“My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.”
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“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”
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“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
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“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”
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“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”
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“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
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“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
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Variant: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”
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