“I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.”
― The Colonel's Photograph
― The Colonel's Photograph
“I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.”
― The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
― The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
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