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1 " Scott, with a gentleness that Gerald would never forget and that continued to pain him long afterward, ever so carefully turned the beetle back over, cradled it in his palm, and placed it tenderly under a mound of lavender. "
― Liza Klaussmann , Villa America
2 " She walked towards the edge."Wait," Sara said suddenly. "No, this is mad. You could kill yourselves."Zelda tuned to her and said: "Oh, but Say-ra. Didn't you know? We're not conservationists." And then she jumped. "
3 " Wait," Sara said suddenly. "No, this is mad. You could kill yourselves." Zelda turned to her and said: "Oh, but, Say-ra. Didn't you know? We're not conservationists." And then she jumped. "
4 " But can a true artist be part of a collective, or will she always end up striving for individuality? "
5 " But wine will get you further than flattery with this crowd. "
6 " I don't know if our paths will ever cross again. But, my God, I'm glad they crossed at all. "
7 " The golden bowl is broken indeed, but it was golden... "
8 " After a while, however, it had dawned on her that this was life, what was happening right now. "
9 " on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, "
10 " Calvin Tomkins’s beautiful and heartbreaking Living Well Is the Best Revenge. "
11 " Maybe work is just one long process of hiding one’s deficiencies, "
12 " Sometimes there isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been felt. "
13 " Amanda Vaill’s amazing Everybody Was So Young "
14 " Where, she wondered, would all her love go? "
15 " Lost Generation, edited by Linda Patterson Miller. "
16 " Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After. "
17 " Everything is better when you share it, I think. That flow of ideas between different people, the chaos of it all, makes life so exciting. And when someone new comes in, the chemistry changes and you see things in people you hadn’t seen before. "
18 " I don’t think you’ve ever had a second-rate moment in your life, "
19 " Owen seemed to think this over. “Choices, even bad ones, don’t make you less innocent. And maybe you’re right; maybe some people don’t have a choice. "
20 " What disgusted him most, though, was that despite knowing all this, he had hope. It grew like a weed when nothing else would grow, defying inhospitable weather, an insult to the real crops that withered before they even had a chance to take root. Owen "