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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует8 лет назад
    "You're just the romantic age," she continued—"fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is—oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty."
  • молли спарклцитирует4 года назад
    young lady, beautiful as sin.
  • Ирина Волынеццитирует6 лет назад
    Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal—with an effort he choked back the impulse. "You're just the romantic age," she continued—"fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is—oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty."
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    Then it was all dark, and his white crib and the dim faces that moved above him, and the warm sweet aroma of the milk, faded out altogether from his mind.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    And then he remembered nothing.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    He did not remember. He did not remember clearly whether the milk was warm or cool at his last feeding or how the days passed—there was only his crib and Nana's familiar presence.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    There were only the white, safe walls of his crib and Nana and a man who came to see him sometimes, and a great big orange ball that Nana pointed at just before his twilight bed hour and called "sun." When the sun went his eyes were sleepy—there were no dreams, no dreams to haunt him.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    he realized that those were things in which he was never to share.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    Roscoe's son moved up into the first grade after a year, but Benjamin stayed on in the kindergarten.
  • Sarasinbooksцитирует6 месяцев назад
    Roscoe took them both to kindergarten on the same day,
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