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Description
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aeshete... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“"A classic...is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation."”
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“"This is life! Who cares for the morrow?"”
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“"Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery."”
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“"Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off breathing out memories as they decay."”
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“"Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us."”
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“"Desire just cheats you...its like a sunbeam... we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone."”
First Sentence
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.
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Authors & Contributors
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)
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