

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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