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Kerry Holiday is Amory’s first friend at Princeton; they live in the same house during Amory’s freshman year. Kerry is also Burne’s older brother. Kerry and Amory bond over their initial frustrations with the Princeton social scene, feeling like they are not accepted because they are middle class. They become close and have a rowdy, lively friendship. Kerry is the first of Amory’s classmates to leave school to join the war, where he later dies.
Kerry Holiday Quotes in This Side of Paradise
The This Side of Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Kerry Holiday or refer to Kerry Holiday. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 2: Spires and Gargoyles
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“Oh, it isn’t that I mind the glittering caste system,” admitted Amory. “I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I’ve got to be one of them.”
“But just now, Amory, you’re only a sweaty bourgeois.”
Amory lay for a moment without speaking.
“I won’t be—long,” he said finally. “But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I’ll show the marks, don’t you know.”
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Book 1, Chapter 3: The Egotist Considers
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“A personality is what you thought you were, what this Kerry and Sloane you tell me of evidently are. Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on—I’ve seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides ‘the next thing.’ Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he’s done. He’s a bar on which a thousand things have been hung—glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them.”
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Kerry Holiday Quotes in This Side of Paradise
The This Side of Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Kerry Holiday or refer to Kerry Holiday. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 1, Chapter 2: Spires and Gargoyles
Quotes
“Oh, it isn’t that I mind the glittering caste system,” admitted Amory. “I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I’ve got to be one of them.”
“But just now, Amory, you’re only a sweaty bourgeois.”
Amory lay for a moment without speaking.
“I won’t be—long,” he said finally. “But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I’ll show the marks, don’t you know.”
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Book 1, Chapter 3: The Egotist Considers
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“A personality is what you thought you were, what this Kerry and Sloane you tell me of evidently are. Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on—I’ve seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides ‘the next thing.’ Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he’s done. He’s a bar on which a thousand things have been hung—glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them.”
