“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.”
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers
“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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