Amory Blaine quotes
A character in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32 quotes spoken by or about Amory Blaine, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Page 2 of 2.
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marrying you would be a failure and I never fail
Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.
To-morrow I’m going to leave New York for good. It’s a bad town unless you’re on top of it.
I’m restless. My whole generation is restless. I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—
Princeton drew him most, with its atmosphere of bright colors and its alluring reputation as the pleasantest country club in America.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.