F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful."

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as di...
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things ...
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I know myself, but that is all.
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I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tr...
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of th...
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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he ki...
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in...
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
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If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
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[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy....
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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's...
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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
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People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are h...
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The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte...
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I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.
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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
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The rich get richer and the poor get — children.
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the...
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
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[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy....
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After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eye’s power of c...
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An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
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We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Jo...
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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving e...
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night
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I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to ...
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope t...
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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the...
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not throu...
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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie...
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living...
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...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
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I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
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Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
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A bad driving and not even trying!
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Human sympathy has its limits.
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This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I...
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Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the wor...
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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out no...
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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had...
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I lived here once," the author said after a moment.
"Here? For a long time?"
"No. For just...
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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superio...
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The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growi...
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Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rat...
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Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, c...
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the s...
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thin...
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Action is character.
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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
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He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips...
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There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth ...
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Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder...
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not a...
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against ho...
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we h...
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
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I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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It takes two to make an accident.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying s...
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
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There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come acros...
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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to b...
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtue...
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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
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The rich get richer and the poor get — children.
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no throu...
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
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[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no throu...
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or w...
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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wi...
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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think o...
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Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long...
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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.
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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That�...
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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfull...
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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
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Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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I'm a cynical idealist.
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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
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no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...
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Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together,...
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...
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Nothing had ever felt so young as her lips.
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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancien...
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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d...
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A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new pers...
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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessi...
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...
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There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction b...
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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just chea...
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If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don'...
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It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me ...
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The start and unexpected miracle of a night fades out with the lingering death of the last starts an...
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He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never come back any more...
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All I think of ever is that I love you.
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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it ...
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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little foo...
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't...
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The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually...
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same t...
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like ac...
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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which...
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for ...
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not hap...
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the sup...
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the...
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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Chaque fois que tu te prépares à critiquer quelqu'un, m'a-t-il dit, souviens-toi qu'en venant sur ...
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…
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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings...
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a vio...
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
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Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the...
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad...
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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a qua...
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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
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Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
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I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
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Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
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If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular e...
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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to ...
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You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty thi...
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Character is plot, plot is character.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one chil...
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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily. �...
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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to b...
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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day...
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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, ...
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Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but...
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This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipli...
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I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actua...
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
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And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
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