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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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I want to be a society vampire, you see.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

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"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. "You loved me too?" he repeated. "Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."

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Life cracked like ice!

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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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 too long with a single dream.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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It takes two to make an accident.

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