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Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

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“Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.”

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“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”

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“We all must try to be good.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

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“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”

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Dr. Diver speaking of Abe North.
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)