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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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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 violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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