The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories QUOTES

1 " There are times when you almost tell the harmless old lady next door what you really think of her face—that it ought to be on a night-nurse in a house for the blind; when you’d like to ask the man you’ve been waiting ten minutes for if he isn’t all overheated from racing the postman down the block; when you nearly say to the waiter that if they deducted a cent from the bill for every degree the soup was below tepid the hotel would owe you half a dollar; when—and this is the infallible earmark of true exasperation—a smile affects you as an oil-baron’s undershirt affects a cow’s husband.

But the moment passes. Scars may remain on your dog or your collar or your telephone receiver, but your soul has slid gently back into its place between the lower edge of your heart and the upper edge of your stomach, and all is at peace. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

3 " He wanted a world that was like walking through rain, "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

5 " You see, I am fate,” it shouted, “and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

7 " And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

9 " My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

11 " I’m not sure what I’ll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

13 " For another instant life was radiant and time a phantom and their strength eternal— "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

15 " Snobbishness is, after all, merely good breeding grown dictatorial; so Samuel’s code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out in a certain gutter. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories