“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“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.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.
And which do you love best?
The dream.”
― Pan
And which do you love best?
The dream.”
― Pan
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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