This Side of Paradise
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Read between August 18, 2022 - December 11, 2023
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“If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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“You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not,”
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“I can’t drift—I want to be interested. I want to pull strings, even for somebody else, or be Princetonian chairman or Triangle president. I want to be admired, Kerry.”
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If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something; if you don’t, just take it easy.”