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Emma giggled. "I don't think so." She nudged him playfully. "Just go on over and make them an offer they can't refuse on taking your fiancee upstairs to consummate your engagement." He scowled at her. "You're supposed to consummate a marriage, not an engagement.


Katie Ashley


#emma-harrison #katie-ashley #the-proposal #marriage

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.


Scott Fitzgerald


#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art. (video)


Stephen Fry


#books #comedy #fitzgerald #humour #joyce

He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients when he entered St. Regis'. But the Minneapolis years were not a thick enough overlay to conceal the "Amory plus Beatrice" from the ferreting eyes of a boarding school, so St. Regis' had very painfully drilled Beatrice out of him and begun to lay down new and more conventional planking on the fundamental Amory. But both St. Regis' and Amory were unconscious of the fact that this fundamental Amory had not in himself changed. Those qualities for which he had suffered: his moodiness, his tendency to pose, his laziness, and his love of playing the fool, were now taken as a matter of course, recognized eccentricities in a star quarter-back, a clever actor, and the editor of the "St. Regis' Tattler"; it puzzled him to see impressionable small boys imitating the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#this-side-of-paradise #youth #change

He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.


Richard Finney


#melodrama #romance #dreams

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires


Jodi Picoult


#father #firefighting #heaven #hell #humor

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#hope

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am...


Jodi Picoult


#sisters

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.


Ethel Waters


#ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #riff #singer

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#death #fitzgerald #happiness #rose #roses






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