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This Side Of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine,

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“She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Woman, description of a lover, admiration, Attraction

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Caring about someone, liking someone, caring, Concerned, worried

“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Kissing, Flowers, Wind

“‘But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Quote, Sweet Gestures, Confession of Love, Romantic, Intimacy

“I want to tell you about your heart—you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: reminder, Life, life advice, Reminders, Encouragement

“…Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimate, Passionate, Love, romance

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want anyone to know.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: admiration, Love, Secret, selfishness, romance

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Women Empowerment, Women Power, women can beat men

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Self & Identity, Self-awareness, Self-Doubt, Intellect, Self-Acceptance

“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Sad, Thoughts, worries

“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Courtship, Dating

“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: desires, emotions, Slave

“Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Things that matter, Nothing Matters

“I want to tell you about your heart—you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Neglecting Your Heart

“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Up, Youth, Exposure, Knowledge

“You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Passion, Self-awareness

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself, and laissez-faire for others.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Beliefs, Carpe Diem

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Intimacy

“Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com