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  • 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.

    Life   Years   Trying  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, p.45, Lulu.com
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.

    Baseball   Age   Band  
    Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.
  • Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

    Musical   Age   Machines  
  • Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

    Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.13, Hachette UK
  • Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.5, e-artnow
  • Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

    "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
  • Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.

    Smart   Book   Deception  
  • Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

    Hip Hop   Age   Phrases  
  • Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

    Music   Race   America  
  • Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

    Music   Memorable   Dust  
  • I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

    Hate   America   Age  
    Source: shanemacgowan.com
  • I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

    Magic   Mind   Age  
    "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.
  • A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

    Drama   Home   Silence  
    Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
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