Цитаты из книги автора Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

forgotten her vividness of emotion, which is true forgetting.

, after all, life began.

complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.

Give a good show anyhow.

ANTHONY:(To MAURY) On the contrary, I'd feel that it being a meaningless world, why write? The very attempt to give it purpose is purposeless.

Art isn't meaningless.

MAURY: It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

ANTHONY: In other words, Dick, you're playing before a grand stand peopled with ghosts.

And I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Drink quietly until you roll under the table. Never have a good time. Oh, no, that isn't done at all.

What'd you say? Tell me and I'll write it down. Cut three thousand words out of Part One this afternoon.

MAURY: Noble aesthete. And I poured alcohol into my stomach.

He is one of those men who invariably shake hands, even with people whom they have seen an hour before.