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The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
He knew now that he had always been a fool.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
As this was an inane and unanswerable argument Benjamin made no reply, and from that time on a chasm began to widen between them.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
It was an amazing predicament. He was, in one sense, the richest man that ever lived — and yet was he worth anything at all?
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades — a small town on the Mississippi River — for several generations.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)