Quotes from bookThis Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage; its publication was her condition of acceptance.
“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”
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“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
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“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
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“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
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“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
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“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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