F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes "Is that why you wanted to talk French?" Her voice quieted as the butler came in with sherry. "So you could be offensive more accurately?" F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 314 "You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily, "No, I'm not really--I'm just a--I'm just a whole lot of different simple people." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 314 In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that that wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 149 Then he should have laughed, but he heard himself saying, "Not only are you beautiful but you are somehow on the grand scale. Everything you do, like pretending to be in love or pretending to be shy gets across." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 74 "All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love," Dicked mourned persistently. "Isn''t that true, Rosemary?" F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 68 "Her naïveté responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 30 "Do you know what time it is?" Rosemary asked.
"It's about half-past one."
They faced the seascape together momentarily.
"It's not a bad time," said Dick Diver. " It's not one of the worst times of the day." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, p. 20
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