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Tender Is the Night quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.”
“Think how you love me . . . I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“people living alone get used to loneliness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that this earliest and strongest of protections is gone?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, 'Let's play.'” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“when you're sober you don't want to see anybody, and when you're tight nobody wants to see you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Nicole and I have got to go on together. In a way that's more important than just wanting to go on. ” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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