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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.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

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I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

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I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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To most women art is a form of scandal.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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