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Unfortunately the only interesting thing in this book is the occasional shock of abhorrent sexism, the rest is over written, cliched and torturously boring. Very disappointing, I loved Gatsby when I was young, and Fitzgerald can be a good descriptive
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“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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