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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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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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America is a willingness of the heart.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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