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Tender is the Night
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"Tender is the Night" Quotes

A promising psychiatrist's life unravels as he becomes entangled in the complexities of love, desire, and mental illness amongst the American expatriate community on the French Riviera.

Quotes

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

lovememory

I'm not beautiful. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is to make myself smart - presentable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

self-image

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

americaparis

He's the only man I've ever known that I could love - the only man I ever will love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

love

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

writing

It's a funny thing that people are always worrying about the future. They don't really live for today.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

futureliving in the moment

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

successlife

I've been a romantic for so long, I'd like to do something hard-headed and practical.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

romanticismpracticality

You're a rotten piece of work, and if I had my way, I'd have had you in jail years ago.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

angerdisgust

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

virtuevice