"This Side of Paradise" Quotes

I know myself, but that is all.

I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I don't want to be a man. I want to be the whole works.

Amory Blaine, at the best, was no more than a shadow in the background.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I can't help my weakness. I'm sentimental.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

There is a certain race of men that don't fit in--that life is a bet and they are the stakes.